Prep School: Counting and Cracking
Readings, videos, interviews and more.
We put together a Prep School guide for every show in each NYU Skirball season. These readings, media links, artworks, and discussion questions give you more ways to look at each event, the season as a whole, and make connections between shows and to your own work, research, and interests. We start with context for each show, and then take tangents from there: the performance itself becomes part of an ongoing, intertextual conversation, offering inspiration for your own reflections on what you can see onstage.
Cruise the Archives
Fall 2024
Prep School: Showgirl
Readings, videos, interviews and more.
Prep School: Atlas Drugged
Readings, videos, interviews and more.
Prep School: Movement
Readings, videos, interviews and more.
Prep School: Antigone in the Amazon
Readings, videos, interviews and more.
Prep School: One Song
Readings, videos, interviews and more.
Prep School: Sex Variants of 1941
Readings, videos, interviews and more.
Prep School: No President
Readings, videos, interviews and more.
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Spring 2024
Prep School: La Ville Morte
Readings, videos, interviews and more.
Prep School: Nail Biter
Readings, videos, interviews & more.
Prep School: The Absolute Future
Readings, videos, interviews and more.
Prep School: Doug Varone and Dancers
Readings, interviews, videos & more.
Prep School: Moving in Concert
Readings, videos, interviews and more.
Prep School: Oasis de la Impunidad
Readings, videos, interviews and more.
Prep School: Leila Adu-Gilmore & Anthony Davis
Readings, interviews, videos & more.
Prep School: The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Readings, videos, interviews and more.
Prep School: Queer New York International Arts Festival
Readings, videos, interviews and more.
Prep School: Cliff Cardinal
Readings, videos, interviews and more.
Fall 2023
Prep School: Teatro Línea de Sombra
Readings, videos, interviews and more.
Prep School: TakeMeHome
Readings, videos, excerpts and more.
Prep School: MEDEA on Media
Readings, videos, interviews and more.
Prep School: Breath of the Beast
Readings, videos, interviews and more.
Prep School: Suzanne Bocanegra
Readings, videos, interviews and more.
Prep School: Somnole
Readings, videos, interviews and more.
Prep School: Nosferatu, a 3D Symphony of Horror
Readings, videos, interviews and more.
Prep School: (LA)Horde
Readings, videos, interviews & more.
Prep School: DruidO’Casey
Readings, videos, interviews and more.
Prep School: Step Afrika!
Readings, videos, interviews and more.
Spring 2023
January 12-14
Plexus Polaire: Moby Dick
January 19-29
New York City Players: Field of Mars
February 2-19
The Classical Theatre of Harlem: Twelfth Night
February 23-26
Eva Doumbia: Autophagies (Self-Eaters)
March 10-12
Keely Garfield Dance: The Invisible Project
March 24-25
Bereishit Dance Company: Balance & Imbalance
March 31-April 8
Phelim McDermott & Philip Glass: Tao of Glass
Fall 2022
September 9-10
John Jasperse Projects: Visitation
September 23-24
Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods: Violet
September 30-October 2
Catapult Opera & Toshio Hosokawa: Hanno
October 19-22
SITI Company: Radio Macbeth
October 27-29
Trajal Harrell: Maggie the Cat
Spring 2022
March 25-April 3, 2022
The Builders Association: I Agree to the Terms
April 7-8, 2022
Miguel Poveda in Concert
April 15-17, 2022
Eiko Otake: The Duet Project: Distance is Malleable
April 22-23, 2022
David Dorfman Dance: (A)Way Out of My Body
June 21-July 3, 2022
Pan Pan Theatre: Cascando
July 12-31, 2022
Elevator Repair Service: Seagull
Spring 2020
Jan 23-Feb 2, 2020
The Wooster Group: A PINK CHAIR (In Place of a Fake Antique)
Book Club Pick: The White Book, by Han Kang
Feb 13-15, 2020
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker: Mitten Wir Im Leben Sind
Book Club Pick: The Gift, by Barbara Browning
Feb 28-29, 2020
Toshiki Okada/chelfitsch: Eraser Mountain
Book Club Pick: The End of the Moment We Had, by Toshiki Okada
Apr 10-11, 2020
Madboots Dance: Holy
Book Club Pick: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong
May 1-2, 2020
Les Ballets C de la B: Requiem Pour L
Book Club Pick: How We Fight For Our Lives, by Saeed Jones
Fall 2019
Sep 6-8, 2019
JoAnne Akalaitis: BAD NEWS! I was there...
Book Club Pick: Home Fire, by Kamila Shamsie
Oct 18-20
ICE: George Lewis' Soundlines
Book Club Pick: Advantages of Being Evergreen, by Oliver Baez Bendorf
Oct 25-26
Mette ingvartsen: to come (extended)
Book Club Pick: Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, by Andrea Lawlor
Nov 8-9
Big Dance Theater: The Road Awaits Us
Book Club Pick: The Lonesome Bodybuilder, by Yukiko Motoya