Center for World Performance Studies

Upcoming Events

November 19 | 5:00 pm

CWPS Graduate Student Capstone Presentations

Newman Studio
Walgreen Drama Center

Free - no tickets required

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The Graduate Certificate in World Performance Studies (GCWPS) is an interdisciplinary program for students interested in performance as an artistic and scholarly field of inquiry. Join us as three of our current Graduate Fellows present the culmination of their year-long certificate program that brings together theory, research, and practice: Paige Madden, Steel Pan in the USA: Brooklyn Panorama; David Wang, Rhythmic Roots: The Drum Set in Brazilian Samba, Batucada, and Beyond; and Lola Gallo, Trans Futures: Dissident Masculinities and the Utopian Performative in the Buenos Aires Drag King Scene.

Free Talk Interdisciplinary Research Scholarship North Campus
November 26 | 6:00 pm

CWPS Graduate Student Capstone Presentations


North Quad Space 2435, 105 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Free - no tickets required

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The Graduate Certificate in World Performance Studies (GCWPS) is an interdisciplinary program for students interested in performance as an artistic and scholarly field of inquiry. Join us as three of our current Graduate Fellows present the culmination of their year-long certificate program that brings together theory, research, and practice: Olivia Cirisan, Action / Habit: The Performance and Pedagogy of Balinese Gamelan; Marthe Djilo Kamga, Safari ya Moyo: My soul journey; and Rachel Richards, Japanese Marimba.

Free Talk Interdisciplinary Research Scholarship Central Campus
December 3 | 6:00 pm

CWPS Graduate Student Capstone Presentations


North Quad Space 2435, 105 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Free - no tickets required

Website

The Graduate Certificate in World Performance Studies (GCWPS) is an interdisciplinary program for students interested in performance as an artistic and scholarly field of inquiry. Join us as three of our current Graduate Fellows present the culmination of their year-long certificate program that brings together theory, research, and practice: Kiana Cook, The Krump Continuum; Timothy Tsang, Voguing in Shanghai: Tracing Transnational Identity & Community; and Sunhong Kim, Community-building in Ann Arbor through Korean Drumming.

Free Talk Interdisciplinary Research Scholarship Central Campus

Recent Event Videos

Pamela Z & The Living Earth Show | November 2023

Autophysiopsychic Millennium | March 2023

Ancestral Haiku ft. Marion Hayden, M. Saffell Gardner, and Robin Wilson | September 2022

Guinea Sweet Suite – T. Ayo Alston/Ayodele Drum & Dance Performance at the Keene Theater | March 2022

Makuyeika Colectivo Teatral at the University of Michigan | October 2019

Anishinaabe Theater Exchange at University of Michigan | February 2019

Access more videos from past events on the CWPS YouTube channel!