Performance Art (Fall 2022) (In-Person)

Performance Art (Fall 2022) (In-Person)

October 01 - November 12
10:00am - 1:00pm Central Time

Instructor: Kestutis Nakas

Kestutis Nakas’ work has been presented at La Mama, Dixon Place, P.S. 122, St. Mark's Church, 8BC, and many other venues. Works include RIP, Railroad Backward, Remembrance of Things Pontiac, Lightning and  The Andrew Carnegie Story.\He has taught at NYU, UCLA, CUNY, and the University of New Mexico. He is an Emeritus Professor of Theatre at The Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University in Chicago. His performance text about urban beekeeping, No Bees for Bridgeport, was published in Animal Acts, Performing Species Today, an anthology of new performances edited by Una Chaudhuri and Holly Hughes, University of Michigan Press. A bilingual edition of his critically acclaimed tragi-comic cycle: When Lithuania Ruled The World was published by Aukso Zuvys, Vilnius, in February 2017. In December 2017, he presented Channel D with a new solo show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. 

Classes will be held via Zoom. Instructors will send out Zoom invites one day before class begins. The class will culminate in a live showcase and will enforce any and all COVID restrictions for live cabaret at that time.