American Romanian Festival - Romanian Resonance
A Conversation and Concert
Join us in celebrating 20 years of the American Romanian Festival! The Keene Theater will host the Lecture-Recital, and will feature...
Mark Stone: The Music of Bernard Soglinsog Woma
Professor Mark Allen Stone (Oakland University) will present a lecture-recital on his current research focusing on Bernard Soglinsog...
Onstage: Kunqu Dramatizations of Chinese Beauties, Clowns, Heroes, and Villains
Lecture-demonstration and performance
Professional performers from the most prestigious Kunqu opera theater company in China will star in a multi-part showcase of the...
The Politics of Theater: A Conversation with Professor Juliet Guzzetta (MSU) & Italian Author & Actor Giuliana Musso
Can the live arts address societal urgent issues and if so, how? Join us for a conversation about what it means to do political theater in...
West African Drum & Dance – End of Semester Show
Sponsored by the Keene Theater and Center for World Performance Studies
Join us for an end-of-term performance from students in the West African Drum & Dance course....
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The Center for World Performance Studies seeks to create intellectual and physical space for the study of performance. Our aim is to advocate for performance as a mode of research and as a means of public engagement, centering on underrepresented, non-Western, and diasporic voices, bodies, and acts. We connect—both locally and globally—students, faculty, artists, thinkers, and scholars in order to educate each other about Performance Studies and to promote interdisciplinary and intersectional insights and research methodologies.