Choreography and Corporeality

Thomas F. DeFrantz is Professor and Chair of African and African American Studies at Duke University, USA, and director of SLIPPAGE: Performance, Culture, Technology, a research group that explores emerging technology in live performance applications. He co-convened the Choreography and Corporeality working group (IFTR) from 2005-2013. Other books: Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance, Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture, and Black Performance Theory. Philipa Rothfield is an honorary staff member in philosophy at La Trobe University, Australia. She has an intermittent dance practice, having worked with Russell Dumas (Dance Exchange) and Alice Cummins (Footfall Ensemble). She is a co-convener of the Choreography and Corporeality working group (IFTR). She is dance reviewer for RealTime Magazine, Momm Magazine, Korea and head of the Editorial Board for the Dancehouse Diary. She is also Creative Advisor for Dancehouse, Melbourne.

1. RELAY; Philipa Rothfield and Thomas F. DeFrantz.- PART I. Rethinking Choreography.- 2. Tinkering Away; Philipa Rothfield.- 3.Choreography as Meshwork; Daisuke Muto.- 4.Flickering Photology; Nigel Stewart 5. Caribbean Dance, British Perspectives and the Choreography of Beverly Glean; ‘Funmi Adewole.- PART II. Circuits and Circulation.- 6. Festivals and Local Identities in a Global Economy; Janet O’Shea.- 7. Rhythmic Operations; Lim How Ngean.- 8.Embodying Interaction in Argentinean Tango and Sports Dance; Susanne Ravn.- 9.Speaking Africa; Franz Anton Cramer.- PART III. Affectivities.- 10. The Economy of Shame or Why Dance Cannot Fail; Elizabeth Dempster.- 11. Dancing and Thinking Politics with Deleuze and Rancière; Christel Stalpaert.- 12. Dancing the Downward Slide; Aoife McGrath.- 13. Afrofuturist Remains; Thomas F. DeFrantz.- PART IV. Sites of Representation.- 14. Discipline and Asian American Dance; Yutian Wong.- 15. Corporeal Memories; HannaJärvinen.- 16. Violence, Performance, and Relationality; Ramsay Burt.- 17. Dance in Chile; Adeline Maxwell.- 18. Dancing the Political; Lena Hammergren and Susan Leigh Foster.