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MP4: Practice-Based Performance Studies


About

This Working Group aims to support exchange and collaboration between scholars and artists in the CNY corridor region who are interested in the ways that performance practice enhances and may be enhanced by scholarly methodologies.

Open to New People

Active since: 2019

  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
  • University of Rochester
  • Colgate University

Collaborative Goals

Our working group brings together practitioners and scholars to collaboratively investigate practice-based research methodologies. We accomplish these collaborative goals in the following ways:

  • Bringing in scholar/practitioners to lead workshops and seminars;
  • Sharing and creating research outputs on writing retreats; and
  • Facilitating practice-based research projects within the group.

Group Organizers

Missy Pfohl Smith

Director, Program of Dance and Movement, University of Rochester

Osvaldo Sandoval Leon

Assistant Professor, Romance Languages, Colgate University

Stephanie Shirilan

Associate Professor, English, Syracuse University

Theo Black

Lecturer, Performing and Media Arts, Cornell University