PRISONTOWN: Written and Performed by Lee Osario
PRISONTOWN: Written and Performed by Lee Osario
Saturday, March 21st | Schwartz Theater Lab
Free and open to the public, registration required
Presented by the Emory Center for Ethics and Ethics & the Arts, and in partnership with the Spanish and Portuguese Dept, Theater and Dance Dept, and Theater Emory, watch PRISONTOWN by Lee Osario.
Haunted by a message from his immigration-attorney brother, a writer returns to his hometown of Lumpkin, Georgia—now home to the Stewart County Immigration Detention Center. Guided by a relentless ghost, he confronts what it means to truly see the people caught inside the system, and how far he’s willing to go as an activist. This showing will feature poetry performed in Spanish by students from the course, Taller de Teatro en Español.
University Event Topic: Arts. School: All Emory University. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Center for Ethics. Theater Emory. Theater Studies Department. Emory Dance Program. Event Open To: All (Public). Cost: Free. Registration / R.S.V.P. link: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/prisontown/event/985320/package/3906069. Contact Name: Jay Hammond. Contact Email: jhammo9@emory.edu.
Saturday, March 21, 2026, 7:30 PM.
Schwartz Center Theater Lab | 1700 N Decatur Rd, Atlanta, GA 30322.
Honors Concert: Nadia Piecyk
2025–2026 Emory Dance
Free, No Tickets Required
Emory Dance major Nadia Piecyk’s research is grounded in a view of disability as inherently queer. Her honors thesis project investigates how the body-centricity of disability and queerness disrupts normative hierarchies that privilege mind over body and stability over fluidity. Both disability and queerness are subject to external scrutiny, medicalization, and societal expectations of performance, yet both challenge normative expectations of embodiment and identity, existing in the liminal space between visibility and invisibility. Given that queerness and disability are both so “bodied,” how do hypervisibility and invisibility show up on the stage?
Recommended parking for Schwartz Center events is the Fishburne Parking Deck (free for events after 6 p.m. and on weekends).
Additional Emory Visitor Parking Information Here.
University Event Topic: Arts. School: All Emory University. Department / Organization: Emory Dance Program. Building/Room: Donna & Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Cost: Free. Contact Name: Anne Walker. Contact Email: awalker@emory.edu.
Thursday, March 26, 2026, 7:30 PM.
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts: Dance Studio | 1700 N. Decatur Road.
Honors Concert: Nadia Piecyk
2025–2026 Emory Dance
Free, No Tickets Required
Emory Dance major Nadia Piecyk’s research is grounded in a view of disability as inherently queer. Her honors thesis project investigates how the body-centricity of disability and queerness disrupts normative hierarchies that privilege mind over body and stability over fluidity. Both disability and queerness are subject to external scrutiny, medicalization, and societal expectations of performance, yet both challenge normative expectations of embodiment and identity, existing in the liminal space between visibility and invisibility. Given that queerness and disability are both so “bodied,” how do hypervisibility and invisibility show up on the stage?
Recommended parking for Schwartz Center events is the Fishburne Parking Deck (free for events after 6 p.m. and on weekends).
Additional Emory Visitor Parking Information Here.
University Event Topic: Arts. School: All Emory University. Department / Organization: Emory Dance Program. Building/Room: Donna & Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Cost: Free. Contact Name: Anne Walker. Contact Email: awalker@emory.edu.
Friday, March 27, 2026, 7:30 PM.
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts: Dance Studio | 1700 N. Decatur Road.
Emory Dance Company Spring Concert
2025–2026 Emory Dance
$12 | Students $8
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE
The Emory Dance Company performs new works by student choreographers.Recommended parking for Schwartz Center events is the Fishburne Parking Deck (free for events after 6 p.m. and on weekends). Additional Emory Visitor Parking Information Here.
University Event Topic: Arts. School: All Emory University. Department / Organization: Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Emory Dance Program. Event Open To: All (Public). Building/Room: Donna & Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Contact Name: Anne Walker. Contact Email: awalker@emory.edu.
Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 7:30 PM.
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts: Dance Studio | 1700 N Decatur Rd.
Emory Dance Company Spring Concert
2025–2026 Emory Dance
$12 | Students $8
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE
The Emory Dance Company performs new works by student choreographers.Recommended parking for Schwartz Center events is the Fishburne Parking Deck (free for events after 6 p.m. and on weekends). Additional Emory Visitor Parking Information Here.
University Event Topic: Arts. School: All Emory University. Department / Organization: Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Emory Dance Program. Event Open To: All (Public). Building/Room: Donna & Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Contact Name: Anne Walker. Contact Email: awalker@emory.edu.
Thursday, April 16, 2026, 7:30 PM.
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts: Dance Studio | 1700 N Decatur Rd.
Emory Dance Company Spring Concert
2025–2026 Emory Dance
$12 | Students $8
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE
The Emory Dance Company performs new works by student choreographers.Recommended parking for Schwartz Center events is the Fishburne Parking Deck (free for events after 6 p.m. and on weekends). Additional Emory Visitor Parking Information Here.
University Event Topic: Arts. School: All Emory University. Department / Organization: Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Emory Dance Program. Event Open To: All (Public). Building/Room: Donna & Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Contact Name: Anne Walker. Contact Email: awalker@emory.edu.
Friday, April 17, 2026, 7:30 PM.
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts: Dance Studio | 1700 N Decatur Rd.
Emory Dance Company Spring Concert
2025–2026 Emory Dance
$12 | Students $8
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE
The Emory Dance Company performs new works by student choreographers.Recommended parking for Schwartz Center events is the Fishburne Parking Deck (free for events after 6 p.m. and on weekends). Additional Emory Visitor Parking Information Here.
University Event Topic: Arts. School: All Emory University. Department / Organization: Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Emory Dance Program. Event Open To: All (Public). Building/Room: Donna & Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Contact Name: Anne Walker. Contact Email: awalker@emory.edu.
Saturday, April 18, 2026, 7:30 PM.
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts: Dance Studio | 1700 N Decatur Rd.
Arts Fellow Concert: Madelyn Sher
2025–2026 Emory Dance
$10 | Students $8
New York City-born artist Madelyn Sher presents a new evening-length work that extends her embodied research on rhythms of change, cycles of loving and losing, and coincidence. Following inspiration from singing in Emory's Chorus this year, she will explore what it means to be conducted, led, unified, and convinced; how music shapes our lives; and origin stories. Madelyn is working with a cast of local Atlanta dancers - Lilia Cardosi, Amber Lux Archer, Corian Ellisor, and Kristin O'Neal - with dramaturgy by Kristopher Pourzal.
Recommended parking for Schwartz Center events is the Fishburne Parking Deck (free for events after 6 p.m. and on weekends). Additional Emory Visitor Parking Information Here.
University Event Topic: Arts. School: All Emory University. Department / Organization: Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Emory Dance Program. Event Open To: All (Public). Building/Room: Donna & Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Contact Name: Anne Walker. Contact Email: awalker@emory.edu.
Friday, April 24, 2026, 7:30 PM.
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts: Dance Studio | 1700 N Decatur Rd.
Arts Fellow Concert: Madelyn Sher
2025–2026 Emory Dance
$10
New York City-born artist Madelyn Sher presents a new evening-length work that extends her embodied research on rhythms of change, cycles of loving and losing, and coincidence. Following inspiration from singing in Emory's Chorus this year, she will explore what it means to be conducted, led, unified, and convinced; how music shapes our lives; and origin stories. Madelyn is working with a cast of local Atlanta dancers - Lilia Cardosi, Amber Lux Archer, Corian Ellisor, and Kristin O'Neal - with dramaturgy by Kristopher Pourzal.
Recommended parking for Schwartz Center events is the Fishburne Parking Deck (free for events after 6 p.m. and on weekends). Additional Emory Visitor Parking Information Here.
University Event Topic: Arts. School: All Emory University. Department / Organization: Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Emory Dance Program. Event Open To: All (Public). Building/Room: Donna & Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Contact Name: Anne Walker. Contact Email: awalker@emory.edu.
Saturday, April 25, 2026, 7:30 PM.
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts: Dance Studio | 1700 N Decatur Rd.
Informal Dance Showing
2025–2026 Emory Dance
Free, No Tickets Required
Students from a variety of dance classes will perform work learned or created during the semester.
Recommended parking for Schwartz Center events is the Fishburne Parking Deck (free for events after 6 p.m. and on weekends).
Additional Emory Visitor Parking Information Here.
University Event Topic: Arts. School: All Emory University. Department / Organization: Emory Dance Program. Cost: Free. Contact Name: Anne Walker. Contact Email: awalker@emory.edu.
Monday, April 27, 2026, 6:00 PM.
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts: Dance Studio | 1700 N. Decatur Road.