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.
2017-2018 | 2018-2019 | 2019-2020
Spring 2022
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