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with Thomas F. DeFrantz (USA) Simultaneous Translation English-French
Reputed American choreographer, curator and scholar Thomas f. DeFrantz, whose writings focus on afro-futurism and Black corporeities, invites us to consider the privileges of our gaze and place in relation to bodies of colour, and to contemplate concrete changes in our spectatorship and curating practices, opening space for their situated storytelling without othering, tokenising or exoticising.
Thomas F. deFrantz directs SLIPPAGE: Performance|Culture|Technology, a research lab that explores emerging technology in live performance applications. He also convenes the Black Performance Theory working group as well as the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance. Creative work includes Queer Theory! An Academic Travesty, Monk’s Mood: A Performance Meditation on the Life and Music of Thelonious Monk, fastDANCEpast, reVerse-gesture-reVIEW and re-Orientations, an Afrofuturist fantasy which premiered at Links Hall, Chicago, May, 2024. He believes in our shared capacity to do better and engage creative spirit for a collective good that is anti-racist, proto-feminist, and queer affirming. slippage.org
Wooded room
Duration
01:00