Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for Glitch Dance with Dr. Thomas DeFrantz on Sunday, April 12, from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm, in the Ballet Studio (Room 320), Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP by April 9 by emailing drusso@cornell.edu.
CNY Humanities Working Group MP28: Evolving Practices in Dance & Embodiment invites pedagogues, critical practitioners, researchers, and scholars to attend Glitch Dance.
During this event, Dr. DeFrantz will explore the glitch of dancing with critical theory, anti-colonial, queer-affirming phenomenologies of presence. How can you matter in your dancing beyond the improvised solo, towards the tiktokking flash of a distributed spirit, ready for Insta? What can it mean to care towards gesture in assembly, imaginary or virtual, or right here and right now?
Dr. Thomas F. DeFrantz, visionary artist-scholar and Professor at Northwestern University, directs SLIPPAGE: Performance|Culture|Technology, a humanities and creative research lab. 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. Convenes the Black Performance Theory working group and is founding director of the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance. For more information, please visit slippage.org.
Co-sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor. Hosted by Danielle Russo, Assistant Professor of the Practice and the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University.
Students are also invited to join Improvising the Interface: Screen as Site and Stage, on Monday, April 13, from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm, in the Class of ’56 Dance Studio Theatre (SB10), Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.
