Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies supports three additional co-curricular initiatives and programs: the Performance Studies working group, the Yale Playwrights Festival, and the Yale Dance Lab, and Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM).
Co-Curricular Initiatives
Performance Studies Working Group
The Performance Studies Initiative at Yale (PSI-Y) began as an initiative of Sterling Emeritus Professor Joseph Roach with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as Interdisciplinary Performance Studies at Yale. PSI-Y is a laboratory for the humanities that works to re-imagine interdisciplinary research and develop new methodologies within performance studies and related fields.
Yale Dance Lab
The Yale Dance Lab promotes community, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and activism through dance at Yale and beyond. Fostering partnerships with schools and departments across the university, the Dance Lab emphasizes creative practice as a unique form of research.
Yale Playwrights Festival (YPF)
The Yale Playwrights Festival (YPF) was founded in 2003 by Professor Toni Dorfman and Alum Laura Jacqmin. Every fall, students submit unpublished, previously unproduced one-act or full-length dramatic works-in-progress. A handful of scripts are selected. The festival culminates in a staged reading of the play before a live audience.
Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM)
The Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM), program of the Yale College Dean’s Office, activates creative research and practice across disciplines to advance the cultural landscape of our time. They initiate and support work that adopts and investigates approaches from the arts, architecture, engineering, the sciences, and more. The Center for Collaborative Arts and Media is run by an artist team of Yale faculty and staff.
