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The Department of Department of Performance Studies Performance Studies 721 Broadway, 6th Floor is the first program in the New York, NY 10003 world to focus on Call: 212-998-1620 performance as the object Visit: www.performance.tisch.nyu.edu of analysis. The B.A. in performance studies at the Tisch Office of Career Development Tisch School of the Arts 726 Broadway, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10003 offers students the Call: 212-998-1916 opportunity to explore the Visit: www.nyu.edu/tisch/career fundamental power of performance – on the stage, The NYU Wasserman Center page, and street. for Career Development 133 E. 13th Street, 2nd Floor careers in New York, NY 10003 Call: 212-998-4730 Performance Studies Visit: www.nyu.edu/careerdevelopment Tisch School of the Arts

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Curriculum Guests artists have included Holly Hughes, Carmelita The Performance Studies major builds on a rigorous Tropicana, Ricardo Dominguez, and Deborah Margolis. interdisciplinary core curriculum combining analytical Students have worked with prominent artists and venues and practical research to train students to identify and including Mabou Mines, Anne Bogart, and the Vito write about a wide range of behaviors and events and to Acconci Studio. understand how social structures and relations are made. Designed to be flexible, the B.A. allows students to The final year culminates with a Capstone Project, a double major and study abroad. research paper/project that synthesizes what the students have learned, as well as further honing their research, Spanning time periods, geographical regions, and genres, analysis, and writing skills. students study performance enactments of all kinds: from postmodern dance to ballet, from everyday rituals to experimental art, from capoeira to performance art, Career Resources and beyond. They draw on such fields as , The Tisch Office of Career Development strives to theatre, and history. Courses explore feminist, queer, provide students and alumni with lifelong professional Alumni postcolonial, Marxist, psychoanalytic, and critical race skills that help establish and sustain successful careers in theory. Methods of research and analysis include Performance Studies alumni maintain a lifelong affiliation the arts. TOCD’s services include: Tisch College Central, with the Tisch School of the Arts and have gone on to a fieldwork, interviews, archival research, and movement a searchable internship/job database; individualized analysis. wide variety of careers in the arts and beyond. Many career counseling (by appointment and weekly walk-ins); alumni will want to pursue academic careers and may go resume and cover letter reviews; career workshops and on to earn advanced degrees in Theater Studies, Dance Students are encouraged to take full advantage of New events; industry mentorship programs; access to York City’s vibrant artistic landscape for seeing perfor- Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Ethnic Studies, electronic industry research tools; and a resource library , Visual/Media Studies, Anthropology, mances of all kinds, conducting research, and profes- stocked with trade publications and numerous career- sional development. Several courses require students to , Social Work, and Law. Alumni also become related handouts. TOCD is located within Tisch’s Office teachers, artists, administrators, musicians, critics, writers, use the city – with its many neighborhoods and subcul- of Student Affairs. tures – as a “lab” for exploring theories of everyday journalists, radio personalities, political activists, choreog- practice. In conjunction with TOCD, the NYU Wasserman raphers, curators, and much more. This makes for an Center for Career Development provides career exceptionally rich community of thinkers, doers, and guidance and development services to NYU students and makers. alumni. The Center hosts seminars, job fairs, and expos; Professional Development schedules career counseling appointments; connects As part of a vibrant network of mentors, artists, and The Department of Performance Studies uses New York students with mentors and alumni; trains students in job entrepreneurs, Performance Studies alumni are supported City’s unparalleled resources to bring students into direct interview skills and resume/cover letter writing; and by the Tisch Office of Alumni Relations and the Tisch contact with leading academics, artists, thinkers, policy- compiles employer databases. The Center also maintains Office of Career Development. By creating interdisciplin- makers, scholars, writers, journalists, critics, activists, and NYU CareerNet, an online database of both on- and ary and cross-generational collaborations, these two offices theorists in the field of performance studies. Both the off-campus job and internship listings. Students may use help alumni maintain a connection to the past while department and students organize conferences and Wasserman’s resources to identify sustainable employment growing into their future. Of particular note are two main symposiums that attract scholars from all over the globe. opportunities or explore additional career interests outside alumni councils, Tisch East and Tisch West, whose activity of the arts. is centered on metropolitan NYC and LA respectively.