Danielle Russo Performance Project

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Grateful to everyone who participated in yesterday’s 𝐠 ̸𝐥 ̸𝐢 ̸𝐭 ̸𝐜 ̸𝐡 ̸ ̸ working group session with the brilliant 𝐓 ⃨𝐨 ...
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.

Ithaca! Today kicks off this week’s residency with the wonderful . Please join us this evening for 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆𝑩𝒐𝒅𝒚: 𝑰’𝒎 𝑺𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝑯...
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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Ithaca! I hope you’ll join us for tonight’s closing performance of ＰＥＮＵＭＢＲＡ, this year’s Annual Spring Dance Presenting ...
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 ＤＡＮＣＩＮＧ ＨＯＭＥ／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

Ithaca! Please join us this evening for 𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘 & 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗬: 𝗠𝗨𝗟𝗧𝗜𝗣𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗠𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗬, a performance-lecture by 𝗞𝗔𝗬...
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

𝗧𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗧𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗧𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 • Join us for 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗨𝗗𝗘 𝗧𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 taking place at between 7:00–10:00 p.m. The evening features , , ...
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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We are beyond thrilled to announce that award-winning, multi-hyphenate artist 𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗔 𝗔𝗡𝗔𝗞𝗪𝗘 will collaborate live in 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗨...
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)

𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗨𝗗𝗘 is an intimate evening of new solo & duet dances choreographed by 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗼 • featuring 𝗥𝗼𝘆𝗮 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘀 𝗙𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀...
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

Ithaca! Please join us this evening for 𝗜𝗦 𝗔 𝗛𝗨𝗠 𝗔 𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚? 𝗔 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘-𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗥𝗢𝗬𝗔 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗛𝗧𝗘𝗛𝗡𝗘𝗝𝗔𝗗 takin...
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.

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

Still basking in the joy of returning to the studio with dearest at , where we steeped ourselves in creative research a...
07/17/2025

Still basking in the joy of returning to the studio with dearest at , where we steeped ourselves in creative research and development as part of their June retreat cohort. This also granted us the privilege of being in residence alongside an intimate community of artists, writers, and scholars, many of whom were immersed in similar research areas.

Much thanks to Kaatsbaan for their generosity and support of our creative praxis, and for the delicious time and space to dive in and to truly be/stay with the work.

Thank you to and for their support of our creative research in part with NYSCI, to be continued in NYC and Upstate.

Glimpses of Kayla in rehearsal by me

Still basking in the joy of returning to the studio with dearest at , where we steeped ourselves in creative research a...
07/17/2025

Still basking in the joy of returning to the studio with dearest at , where we steeped ourselves in creative research and development as part of their June retreat cohort. This also granted us the privilege of being in residence alongside an intimate community of artists, writers, and scholars, many of whom were immersed in similar research areas.

Much thanks to Kaatsbaan for their generosity and support of our creative praxis, and for the delicious time and space to dive in and to truly be/stay with the work.

Thank you to and for their support of our creative research in part with NYSCI, to be continued in NYC and Upstate.

Glimpses of Ingrid in rehearsal by

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