Performance Studies

Alum and Senior Continuing Lecturer Michele Apriña Leavy is appearing in the West Coast premiere of "Manning" by Benjamin Benne. The work is presented by San Francisco's Crowded Fire Theatre, a critically acclaimed company for new play production on the West Coast. 

Alum Anuj Vaidya (PhD., performance studies, ‘24) has devised a one-of-a-kind people-powered cinema that re-stories the South Asian epic Ramayana, as eco-tales at the edge of the sixth extinction. On Thursday, June 4 at 6 p.m., “The Smoldering Forest” is a live performance in which Vaidya and audiences co-create the film through live sound, tactile images, and collective imagination. Blending mythology, ecology, and science-fiction, this intimate experience invites audience members to become part of the film itself

Professor Margaret Laurena Kemp, chair, theatre and dance, has created a unique course which develops performance that uses Black literature as its foundation. Offered by the Department of African American and African Studies, The Page, the Lens, the Stage: Making Performance (AAS 152) will be offered in spring quarter 2025. 

The Human Rights Film Festival, a collaboration of Human Rights Studies, Cinema and Digital Media, Global Affairs and the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis, begins with a screening of So Surreal: Behind the Masks on Jan. 30.

PFS faculty Marit MacArthur has received a NEH Mellon Digital Publication Fellowship for her co-authored book project, “Listening to Black Women Poets in Mainly White and Mainly Black Rooms.”

Fore more information, please visit: https://lettersandscience.ucdavis.edu/news/three-uc-davis-faculty-members-receive-national-endowment-humanities-grants

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PFS Alum Caro Novella is serving as the Wayne G. Basler Chair of Excellence for the Integration of the Arts, Rhetoric and Science at East Tennessee State University during the spring 2024 semester.

To learn more about her work and her public programs as part of this residency, please visit: https://www.etsu.edu/etsu-news/2024/03-march/respected-scholar-artist-named-basler-chair.php

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