Performance

Performance | Livestream <br>36.5 / NEW YORK ESTUARY
Sep 14, 2022 | 07:27 am - 08:06 pm

The last in a series of global performance and video works by Sarah Cameron Sunde, 36.5 / NEW YORK ESTUARY will feature the artist standing in the Cove on the East River where Astoria meets Long Island City in Queens for a full tidal cycle (12-13 hours). She partners with local organizations and invites the public to participate by standing in the water with her and by marking each passing hour from the shore. Viewable in the museum's Washington Square East window and online.

The Stonewall Operas (multiple performances)
May 18, 2019 | 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm

These four brand-new 30-minute Stonewall-inspired operas are written and composed by alums of Tisch's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, as part of the Advanced Opera Lab led by Randall Eng, Associate Arts Professor of Graduate Musical Theatre Writing, and Sam Helfrich, Associate Arts Professor of Design for Stage & Film (both Tisch School of the Arts). The operas are designed by students from the Dance Department (both Tisch School of the Arts), directed by students from the New School, and performed by professional opera singers from American Opera Projects. CLICK FOR FULL PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE.

Conversation and Performance<br/>Mark Mothersbaugh, Music for Six-Sided Keyboard
May 04, 2017 | 06:30 pm - 08:00 pm

Following an onstage conversation with Carlo McCormick, Senior Editor, Paper Magazine, Mark Mothersbaugh—creative polymath and founder of the band DEVO—conducts orchestral renditions of his original music and film compositions on a six-sided keyboard of his invention. Organized by NYU’s Grey Art Gallery and co-sponsored by NYU’s Program in Music Technology (Steinhardt). General Admission: $30; NYU Students: […]

Sep 14, 2016 | 07:30 pm - 09:30 pm

  Experimental Music and Interdisciplinary Arts: Explorations on the Edge Wednesday, September 14, 7:30 pm Black Box Theater, Pless Hall, 82 Washington Square East (enter at 28 Washington Place)   Panel discussion moderated by Joan La Barbara, composer, performer, and faculty member, Music Composition (Steinhardt), NYU, with David Behrman, composer; and Alison Knowles and Carolee […]

Nov 11, 2011 | 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm

A series of Fluxus events will be featured in Performa 11—the fourth visual art performance biennial organized by Performa, a nonpro fit interdisciplinary arts organization established by RoseLee Goldberg.

Dec 04, 2008 | 08:00 pm - 08:00 pm

Second Avenue Dance Company Thursday, December 4–Saturday, December 6, 8:00 pm NYU, 111 Second Avenue (between 6th and 7th Sts.), Fifth Floor Theatre This evening of performances features choreography by Ronald K. Brown, founder and artistic director of Evidence, and William Forsythe, along with student works. Included is Brown’s Serving Nia, which focuses on a […]

Apr 28, 2000 | 08:00 pm - 08:00 pm

In L'il Brown Brothers/Nikimalika, indigenous storytellers and colonial mythmakers reenact their versions of what happened at the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904 through ritual, legend, and pseudoscientific narratives.