Honey Pot Performance’s Juke Cry Hand Clap (2014) focuses on house music culture as a conceptual ground to explore social practices developed in Black Chicago during the long 20th century. Drawing from music forms such as blues, gospel, disco,...
As part of the newly launched Robert L. Turner Theatrical and Performance Design initiative, students collaborated with the Providence Ballet Theatre company to design sets and costumes that support an original ballet. Students worked with RISD faculty...
A solo theatre performance by critically acclaimed actor/playwright Dan Hoyle is planned for Wednesday, March 11, in connection with Avishek Ganguly’s (Assistant Professor, Literary Arts and Studies) ongoing “Performance Studies”...
Congratulations to recipients of the Robert Turner Theatrical and Performance Design Project grants for academic year 2015-16:
Nick DePace (Senior Ciritic, Interior Architecture) and Bob Moody (Critic, Illustration) Behind the scene(s): The artifice,...
A production from the Tableaux and/of Performativity class, funded by a grant from the RISD Turner Theatrical and Performance Design Fund, will be staged on Monday, December 7, 2014.
Dirty Looks NYC celebrates the release of the Angela Dufresne (Assistant Professor, Painting) and Jane South (Critic, Sculpture) publication – CHECK YOUR VERNACULAR– at Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair with a performance and screening...
Painting presents
Open Lecture on Performance
affiliated with the course
Tableaux and/or Performativety
September 22 @ 6-9 pm
Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center
Rebecca Schneider Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, Professor of History...
Congratulations to the 2015 Turner Award recipients:
Angela Dufresne (Painting) and Jane South (Critic, Sculpture) will collaborate on the course Tableaux and/of Performativity in the fall semester.
In the spring Avishek Ganguly (Literary Arts + Studies)...
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ROBERT TURNER THEATRICAL AND PERFORMANCE DESIGN PROJECT
Rhode Island School of Design’s 2012-‐2017 strategic plan, Critical Making | Making Critical, acknowledges the importance of an immersive and discipline-based approach to...
The Robert Turner Theatrical and Performance Design Project at RISD was established to support the teaching of interdisciplinary courses that integrate various elements of theatrical and performance design.
2014 Turner Award
Congratulations to Jane...