CSUN Performance Ensemble

03/14/2022

Join us this week at CSUN's Back to Arts Festival! After two years of largely remote learning, we are excited to announce the showcasing of multidisciplinary arts and performance programs across campus and online. This event will feature student works created in 2020 and 2021, as well as new work that will be produced through the planned spring 2022 curriculum.

Click on the link below to view this week's lineup of performance workshops!

https://www.csun.edu/amc/back-to-campus-festival

03/01/2022

Curious about how to get involved and join Performance Ensemble? Well, now you can! Fall semester is right around the corner and it is time to take action!

To enroll in the course we are under COMS 406 and we can be used as a 3 or 1 unit course.

06/14/2021

Make sure to catch our season finale! We sat sat down with two very special guests who shared powerful, never-before-shared performances!

Today, we are joined by PE Alumnae Holden Streetly and Sur Sanford who perform for us and hold a talk back.

06/12/2021

Quick snippet of today's performance eon the PE Podcast by alum, Holden Streetly.

Content warning: sexual assault.

https://youtu.be/0OpwZ1oEC_Y

06/12/2021

Good afternoon! We just uploaded our second season finale full of conversations and wonderful performances from our alum Holden and Sur

Today, we are joined by PE Alumnae Holden Streetly and Sur Sanford who perform for us and hold a talk back.

06/05/2021

Today we discuss the implications of critical race theory both on and off the performance stage, the role of higher education in daily life, and more!

Today we discuss the implications of critical race theory on and off the performance stage, the role of higher education in the daily life, and more!

05/20/2021

A new episode of our podcast is up! We sat down and had a conversation on our mental health, coping mechanisms, and things we wish we knew before.

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04/18/2021

On this weekend's episode, we had Sur guest host and PE Alum, Angela Brutyan sit down with us. We discussed overcoming the fear of performing the personal, standing with the Armenian community after the attacks in Artsakh, and more!

Fernando and, guest host, Sur sit down with PE alumnae, Angela Brutyan about overcoming personal fears, protesting the attacks in Artsakh, and life after CSUN.

04/03/2021

Today, we discussed the role of activism, acts of social justice, and how we can foster such behavior in and outside of the theater space.

Today, Jefferson and Fernando discuss the role of activism, acts of social justice, and how we can foster such behavior in and outside of the theater space.

03/27/2021

Today, Sam joins us as we discuss the atrocity in Georgia, the body as a tool for social change, and academic gatekeeping.

Today, Sam joins us again as we discuss the atrocity in Georgia, the use of the body as a tool of social change, and academic gatekeeping.

03/23/2021

Join us as we enter the lost episode!

Recorded a few weeks back, Jefferson and Fernando wing it on their conversation.

03/18/2021

THE PERFORMANCE ENSEMBLE DENOUNCES ALL VERBAL AND PHYSICAL VIOLENCE THAT OUR AAPI COMMUNITY HAS EXPERIENCED. WE CONDEMN ALL ACTS OF BIGOTRY, RACISM, AND VIOLENT LANGUAGE.

WE ALSO REFUSE TO CONDONE ANY ANTI-BLACKNESS IN CURRENT RHETORIC TO CONTINUE STANDING UP FOR OUR AAPI FAMILY.

WE WISH TO DO ALL WE CAN SO WE WILL START WITH EDUCATION. LISTEN TO THOSE WHO ARE WILLING TO SHARE THEIR VOICE ON THE MATTER.

THE FIGHT FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE MARCHES ON. WE HEAR YOU AND WE ARE HERE FOR YOU.

(VIA INSTAGRAM)