The School of Drama, New York, NY Videos
Videos by The School of Drama in New York. The School of Drama is the creative home to a dynamic group of actors, directors, writers, creative technologists, and multi-disciplinary theater artists. newschool.edu/drama
Sneak peek from Collaborative Making Process 4, Theatical Performance class, led by Irisdelia Garcia (MFA ‘24): As part of my Apex capstone exploration for next year, I am really interested in how the body is an archive for trauma, joy, and instinctual skills of community cultivation. As a Puerto Rican, my body holds so much interpersonal, intergenerational, and ancestral histories that deserve to be passed through, around, and within the body.
For an experimental workshop with my cohort, I conducted some movement research around body as home/language/container for story as we deepen our relationships with other folks’ internal structures. I am investigating how the specific history of the US-mandated sterilization of Puerto Rican women during the 1930s has affected our perceptions around the body and the multitudes womanhood. The threading in the workshop is double-edged: it is a visual representation of the way we build connection while also being symbolic of the “black thread” doctors used to sterilize women on the island. This work will hopefully manifest into a piece that involves choreopoetry, interviews, and archival research for our Apex showcase in Spring 2024.
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Sneak peek from Collaborative Making Process 4, Theatical Performance class, led by Irisdelia Garcia (MFA ‘24): As part of my Apex capstone exploration for next year, I am really interested in how the body is an archive for trauma, joy, and instinctual skills of community cultivation. As a Puerto Rican, my body holds so much interpersonal, intergenerational, and ancestral histories that deserve to be passed through, around, and within the body. For an experimental workshop with my cohort, I conducted some movement research around body as home/language/container for story as we deepen our relationships with other folks’ internal structures. I am investigating how the specific history of the US-mandated sterilization of Puerto Rican women during the 1930s has affected our perceptions around the body and the multitudes womanhood. The threading in the workshop is double-edged: it is a visual representation of the way we build connection while also being symbolic of the “black thread” doctors used to sterilize women on the island. This work will hopefully manifest into a piece that involves choreopoetry, interviews, and archival research for our Apex showcase in Spring 2024.
Learn something new
Learn something new! 🎭 Cat Gillespie (BFA '23) has found opportunities to break the boundaries of dramatic performance, sparking growth as a playwright and collaborator.
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Welcome to the Fall 2021 semester at CoPA!
"The excitement of it - the excitement of everyone being together again in person - that’s what I look forward to this fall." 🤗 🍂 Richard Kessler, Executive Dean, College of Performing Arts and Dean of Mannes ❤️
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NYC is Back - Student Q&A This Week!
School starts this month! ️Hear from CoPA students Tony De La Vega (BFA '23, MA AME '24), Mary Cowden (BA/BFA '22), and Maftuna Tolipova (BM '20, MM '23) about what it's like to study at CoPA and visit our Instagram stories @newschoolperformingarts this Wednesday to ask them your questions!
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NYC is Back!
New York City is BACK and we are so excited to welcome our students on campus in NYC this fall! 💫 🏙 🎷: Marvin Carter, BFA '22
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LIVE NOW! Jaybird's Twitch.tv channel and upcoming production of The Connection Introducing the launch of Jaybird’s new Twitch.tv channel that investigates and explores the way America deals with drug use and users both socially and politically. Help us to challenge the choices made in categorizing drugs in the legal system and the disproportionate and negative impact the now 50 year ‘war on drugs’ has had on drug users and communities of color. Where has it gotten us? What has been achieved in that time to reduce crime or overdoses or to aid users to integrate successfully into society? Please subscribe and follow and join in the conversation and debate. Jaybird will be meeting and collaborating with drug users and those who work with them to discuss these topics and it will culminate in the production of "The Connection" by Jack Gelber on May 7th at 7.30pm ET. Please follow our channel now and help us drive this conversation into social and political change. For more information visit: https://event.newschool.edu/jaybirdtheconnection #CollegeofPerformingArtsAtTheNewSchool Mannes School of Music The School of Jazz and Contemporary Music The School of Drama The New School
The World Turned Off - Little Boxes
On March 11, 2020, students at the College of Performing Arts learned that due to the rapid spread of Covid-19 they would be forced to part ways and quarantine for an unknown length of time. Twelve students and two professors spread across eight cities, wrote, directed, choreographed, and filmed Little Boxes while under stay-at-home orders and without leaving their homes. Here is the opening scene, "The World Turned Off". Visit coparemote.com/#littleboxes to view additional excerpts and full credits!
“We hope for this film to live as a time capsule of our first two months in quarantine: the anxiety, adjustments, and the beautiful moments we lived through. This film is dedicated to the essential workers who risked their lives to keep us safe during those uncertain months. We are grateful for your selflessness and your service.”
Directed and Edited by Shannon Delijani
Book by Shannon Delijani and Everly Cole
Music by Zachary Catron, Everly Cole, Shannon Delijani, Lior Peeri, and Alexander Ronneburg
Music Direction by Zachary Catron
Choreography by Izzy Hanson-Johnson
Created as part of the Spring 2020 Music Theatre Performance Lab, taught by Leslie Stifelman and Kevin Newbury.
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