Danielle Russo Performance Project, 20 Putnam Avenue, Brooklyn, NY (2026)

06/02/2026

Ithaca! I’m delighted to be included in 𝑱𝒖𝒏𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆, curated and directed by Jim Self at .

This Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm, the evenings will feature live performances by Rik Daniels, Mark Schmidt, and Jim Self, alongside an excerpt of 𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒎𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒎𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒔 on film (link in bio).

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It’ll been 10(!) years this month since we were ferrying back and forth to for this project and its people I hold so dear.

𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒎𝒆... is a site-specific dance submerged in the emptied basin of an abandoned pool, contemplating obedience, ritual, and the ritualized body.

Two dancers inhabit a shared body over an 80-minute descent, cycling through devotional studies in purification and burial rites, architectures of worship, recurring postures and gesticulations in depictions of religious martyrdom, and the
gendered mythologies of Salome.

This weekend’s screening features Jason Collins performing penance as part of a final solo sequence steeped in the stamina of choreographic repetition—or rote prayer.

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𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒎𝒆... premiered on Governors Island in June 2016 with the generosity and support of The Trust for Governors Island, , and .

𝑱𝒖𝒏𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 2026 is made possible by a partner, the Statewide Community Regrant program from NYSCA administered by , and Primary Performance Group.

04/13/2026

Grateful to everyone who participated in yesterday’s 𝐠 ̸𝐥 ̸𝐢 ̸𝐭 ̸𝐜 ̸𝐡 ̸ ̸ working group session with the brilliant 𝐓 ⃨𝐨 ⃨𝐦 ⃨𝐦 ⃨𝐲 ⃨ ⃨𝐃 ⃨𝐞 ⃨𝐅 ⃨𝐫 ⃨𝐚 ⃨𝐧 ⃨𝐭 ⃨𝐳 ⃨ ⃨, gathering together faculty, scholars, and critical practitioners from across the Central New York Humanities Corridor — a break, a rupture for dissent, disruption, distortion, and for sharing in the dis/comfort toward new ways of engaging, in practice and in community. And of course, big thanks Tommy — a nourishing, generative afternoon!

Curious folks from across campus are invited to join 𝐭 ⃨𝐨 ⃨𝐝 ⃨𝐚 ⃨𝐲 ⃨’ ⃨𝐬 ⃨ workshop with Tommy — 𝐈 ⃨𝐦 ⃨𝐩 ⃨𝐫 ⃨𝐨 ⃨𝐯 ⃨𝐢 ⃨𝐬 ⃨𝐢 ⃨𝐧 ⃨𝐠 ⃨ ⃨𝐭 ⃨𝐡 ⃨𝐞 ⃨ ⃨𝐈 ⃨𝐧 ⃨𝐭 ⃨𝐞 ⃨𝐫 ⃨𝐟 ⃨𝐚 ⃨𝐜 ⃨𝐞 ⃨: ⃨ ⃨𝐒 ⃨𝐜 ⃨𝐫 ⃨𝐞 ⃨𝐞 ⃨𝐧 ⃨ ⃨𝐚 ⃨𝐬 ⃨ ⃨𝐒 ⃨𝐢 ⃨𝐭 ⃨𝐞 ⃨ ⃨& ⃨ ⃨𝐒 ⃨𝐭 ⃨𝐚 ⃨𝐠 ⃨𝐞 ⃨ ⃨— from 2:30–4:30pm at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, SB10 Studio. Join us!

𝐃 ⃨𝐫 ⃨. ⃨ ⃨𝐓 ⃨𝐨 ⃨𝐦 ⃨𝐦 ⃨𝐲 ⃨ ⃨𝐃 ⃨𝐞 ⃨𝐅 ⃨𝐫 ⃨𝐚 ⃨𝐧 ⃨𝐭 ⃨𝐳 ⃨, visionary artist-scholar and Professor at Northwestern University, directs SLIPPAGE: Performance|Culture|Technology, a humanities and creative research lab. Believes in our shared capacity to do better and engage creative spirit for a collective good that is anti-racist, proto-feminist, and q***r affirming. Convenes the Black Performance Theory working group and is founding director of the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance. For more information, please visit slippage.org.

03/24/2026

Ithaca! Today kicks off this week’s residency with the wonderful . Please join us this evening for 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆𝑩𝒐𝒅𝒚: 𝑰’𝒎 𝑺𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒆, a performance-lecture that will take place from 5:00pm to 6:00pm at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, SB10 Theater.

𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆𝑩𝒐𝒅𝒚 moves through episodes in 𝑰𝒏𝒈𝒓𝒊𝒅 𝑲𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒚𝒏’s career as an international performer and creator in dance-theater, honoring the body as refuge—a site for grounding, connection, and direction amid the onslaught of contemporary life.

As an international freelance performer whose work has taken her from Off-Broadway stages in New York City to the five-floor hotel housing the hit immersive production Sleep No More in Shanghai, Ingrid approaches movement—body language—as a profoundly universal and unifying means of communication. Drawing from her dance-theater company’s dystopian world-building, her ancestral research in collaboration with Assistant Professor of the Practice Danielle Russo, and the somatic principles that ground her physical practice, she frames bodily awareness as a pathway to accessing memory, inscribed history, and future possibility.

This event is part of 𝑫𝑨𝑵𝑪𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑯𝑶𝑴𝑬/𝑳𝑨𝑵𝑫, a yearlong series of live performances and activations, guest artist residencies and symposia, and extra/curricular experiences that engages dance and performance artists, students, and communities in dialogue around memory, migration, and place—and where fantasy can serve as a site for reworlding belonging and futurity. In collaboration with PMA Senior Lecturer Theo Black.

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03/21/2026

Ithaca! I hope you’ll join us for tonight’s closing performance of ＰＥＮＵＭＢＲＡ, this year’s Annual Spring Dance Presenting Series in the Department of Performing Arts & Media Arts. This one-hour showcase features nine student dancers performing in two original choreographies by Babatunji Johnson and me: Jolene Conti, Dahlia Gilinsky, Justin Junseok Lee, Shamara Nesarajah, Julia Nwokedi, Antonella Dapozzo Oviedo, Taylor Janeen Pryor, Amirah Ricks and Shanika Thomas. I’m super proud of each dancer and their growth—not only in their movement practice, but in developing their own artistic and critical voices.

Tonight’s performance starts at 7:30 PM at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Although tickets are free, we strongly encourage you to reserve in advance and to arrive early.

ＰＥＮＵＭＢＲＡ presents two ensemble dance works that delve into the shadow self and the tensions between impulse, restraint, and the ego. Layers surface and recede as dancers move through the many selves they carry—some revealed, others concealed, held close or kept sacred as acts of survival during an era marked by fear, surveillance, and uncertainty. he title evokes the penumbra—the luminous edge of shadow—an image of the threshold where darkness thins and the possibility of light emerges, honoring the quiet persistence of our own.

Special thanks to PMA faculty Jeffrey Palmer and Sarah Bernstein and their students for their collaboration on the screendance and costume designs for the showcase.

ＰＥＮＵＭＢＲＡ is the culmination of ＤＡＮＣＩＮＧＨＯＭＥ／ＬＡＮＤ, which is a yearlong series of live performances and activations, guest artist residencies and symposia, and extra/curricular experiences that engages dance and performance artists, students, and communities in dialogue around memory, migration, and place—and where fantasy can serve as a site for reworlding belonging and futurity.

Fabulous poster art by Jini Li

03/03/2026

Ithaca! Please join us this evening for 𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘 & 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗬: 𝗠𝗨𝗟𝗧𝗜𝗣𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗠𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗬, a performance-lecture by 𝗞𝗔𝗬𝗟𝗔 𝗙𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗛 that will be taking place from 5:00pm to 6:00 pm at the Scwhartz Center for the Performing Arts, SB10 Theatre.

is a Black American choreographer and director merging dance-theater, filmmaking, narrative, and sound score through the lens of BIPOC folk stories and marginalized perspectives. Magical realism “dreams the gaps” among erased records of histories and lineages—unearthing, reckoning, and reimagining what was there, offering ode and remembrance, generating life in the in-between, and making way for the future. In conversation with Cole Arthur Riley, bell hooks, and Hortense Spiller, place and belonging, time and memory, and home and embodiment are studies on reclamation to return to self and community.

Kayla will also teach a 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗮 workshop tomorrow, Wednesday, Mar 4, from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm, in SB10 studio at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.

All events are free and open to the public

𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘 & 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗬 is curated by Assistant Professor of Practice Danielle Russo with the generosity and support of the Department of Performing & Media Arts at Cornell University and the 2025/26 PMA Dance Programming: 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲/𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱.

Photographs by Alex Diaz | Film by Garrett Parker

12/17/2025

𝗧𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗧𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗧𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 • Join us for 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗨𝗗𝗘 𝗧𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 taking place at between 7:00–10:00 p.m. The evening features , , , and .

Feeling so fortunate to be working with such a powerhouse group of artists and genuinely good people. If you know, you know, and if you’re new to the work of these fine folks, please come join us and see/feel for yourself.

The program will take shape as an open installation in the round; you are welcome to enter and witness the work at will. The solos—each approximately 20–25 minutes—will unfold sequentially, connected by a series of interstitial duets lasting around 10 minutes each.

Entry is free, but donations of $15-$20 are appreciated. We recommend making your reservation in advance as space is already filling up! (Link in bio)

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12/17/2025

We are beyond thrilled to announce that award-winning, multi-hyphenate artist 𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗔 𝗔𝗡𝗔𝗞𝗪𝗘 will collaborate live in 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗨𝗗𝗘, taking place 𝗧𝗢𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗪, 𝗪𝗘𝗗𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗗𝗘𝗖 𝟭𝟳 at from 7:00–10:00 p.m. Her original sound collage lays down the sonic environment for the ritual unfolding for tomorrow’s gathering.

The program will take shape as an open installation in the round; you are welcome to enter and witness the work at will. Solo dance—each approximately 15–25 minutes—will transpire sequentially, connected by a series of interstitial duets lasting around 10 minutes each.

Entry is free, but donations of $15-$20 are appreciated. We recommend making your reservation in advance as space is limited and tickets are selling fast. (Link in bio)

12/08/2025

𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗨𝗗𝗘 is an intimate evening of new solo & duet dances choreographed by 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗼 • featuring 𝗥𝗼𝘆𝗮 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘀 𝗙𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗵𝗻𝗲𝗷𝗮𝗱, 𝗜𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗱 𝗞𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝘆𝗻, 𝗞𝗮𝘆𝗹𝗮 𝗙𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵 & 𝗝𝗶𝗲-𝗛𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗮𝘂 • to be performed at on Wed Dec 17 between 7:00–10:00 p.m.

The program will take shape as an open installation in the round; you are welcome to enter and witness the work at will. The solos—each approximately 15–25 minutes—will unfold sequentially, connected by a series of interstitial duets lasting around 10 minutes each.

The dances—at once propulsive and finely detailed—draw on its performers’ genealogies, the work of Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, and the idea of ancestral memory to sculpt an archive of iconographies collaging poetics, myths, gestures, and sensations based on the experience of Womxn.

PRELUDE is the first formal showcase of material to be included in a larger installation imagined for Fall 2026. This phase of the work is inspired by creative research supported through the New York State Choreographers Initiative (with and ), under the mentorship of .dance, as well as residencies at and .

Entry is free, but donations of $15-$20 are appreciated.

Reservations are recommended at link in bio.

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Photographs by , .film & Max Thomsen

10/15/2025

Ithaca! Please join us this evening for
𝗜𝗦 𝗔 𝗛𝗨𝗠 𝗔 𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚? 𝗔 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘-𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘
𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗥𝗢𝗬𝗔 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗛𝗧𝗘𝗛𝗡𝗘𝗝𝗔𝗗 taking place at 5:30 pm at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts (SB10 Theatre)

𝗖𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗼𝘆𝗮 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘀 𝗙𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗵𝗻𝗲𝗷𝗮𝗱 shares and reflects on her interdisciplinary work and career shaped by her upbringing as a first-generation Persian and Spanish American. Working at the intersection of dance, writing, film, and visual art, she approaches the body as protest, archive, and mirror.

She moves through improvisation, magic realism, and embodied storytelling to excavate themes of migration, surveillance, femme experience, and collective humanism. Her recovery from cancer has further expanded her research into movement as survival, healing, and futurity, opening new dimensions in her practice around care and resilience.

𝗜𝗦 𝗔 𝗛𝗨𝗠 𝗔 𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚? is a performance-lecture exploring movement as sound, rupture, and reclamation—fragments of her ongoing work as a Persian artist-researcher

As a certified instructor in the American Ballet Theatre Method, Roya will also teach an open level ballet class on Thursday, Oct 16, from 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm, in Studio 320 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. This event is free and open to the public; all dancing bodies welcome and embraced. 

𝗜𝗦 𝗔 𝗛𝗨𝗠 𝗔 𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚? is curated by Assistant Professor of the Practice Danielle Russo with the generosity and support of in part with 2025/26 PMA Dance Programming: 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲/𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱.

07/25/2025

There is a cellular calm to working in residence at . Our creative research could simultaneously expand, deepen, and dissolve its own limits.

Thank you for having us as part of your June retreat cohort.

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Looking back at rehearsals with and , and revving up for our next stage.

Thank you to and for supporting our creative research with NYSCI, to be continued in NYC and Upstate.

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