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Performing Arts: Taking Center Stage
A new cohort of leaders at PacevlogƵs School of Performing Arts (PPA) is embracing change and continuing to enable studentsvlogƵ professional successvlogƵall while guiding the way toward a more equitable arts community.
vlogƵWevlogƵre thinking about all the ways in which the industry is changing,vlogƵ says Jennifer Holmes, PhD, who returned to Pace last fall to serve as executive director of PPA. vlogƵItvlogƵs an opportunity to look at the curriculum, look over our policies and procedures, and ensure that they are relevant and inclusive.vlogƵ A performer and director, Holmes started her teaching career at Pace and went on to lead theater and communications programs at The New School and Long Island University.
vlogƵItvlogƵs an opportunity to look at the curriculum, look over our policies and procedures, and ensure that they are relevant and inclusive.vlogƵ
vlogƵWevlogƵre making a real push toward interdisciplinary collaboration,vlogƵ she says. That includes training students for todayvlogƵs world of digital content creationvlogƵsetting them up to be able to write, produce, and star in their own online seriesvlogƵand planning a new graduate program at the intersection of performance, design, and technology.
The new PPA leadership team includes Amen Igbinosun, an actor and educator, who joined Pace as program head for acting for film, television, voice-overs, and commercials, and Jesse Carlo, an actor, director, and choreographer, who is the new program head for musical theater. Commercial dance professors Lauren Gaul and Scott Jovavich also took on new leadership roles.
vlogƵPPA students are so talented, and theyvlogƵre really the heart of the performing arts in New York City,vlogƵ Holmes says. vlogƵWevlogƵre training them, and theyvlogƵre also out there working. TheyvlogƵre bringing the things that they learn from us into the professional space, and what they learn working into our classrooms. WevlogƵre really changing the industry from the inside.vlogƵ
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