Queer Dance
Edited by Clare Croft
Author Information
Clare Croft is a dance historian, theorist, dramaturg, and curator. She is the editor and curator of Queer Dance, and the author of Dancers as Diplomats. Her writing about dance and performance has appeared in academic journals, including Theatre Journal and Dance Research Journal, and she has been a regular contributor to a number of newspapers, including The Washington Post and the Austin American-Statesman. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dance at the University of Michigan, where she teaches in the BFA and MFA Dance programs.
Contributors:
Angela K. Ahlgren is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at Bowling Green State University. Her writing has been published in Contemporary Directions in Asian American Dance (University of Wisconsin Press), Women & Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture, and the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and she is at work on a monograph, Drumming Asian America: Taiko, Performance, and Cultural Politics.
Musicologist Jennifer L. Campbell specializes in twentieth-century American music, focusing on composers Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, and Paul Bowles. She frequently undertakes interdisciplinary projects, exploring connections between music, dance, art, politics, and cultural identity and has published on such topics in the journal Diplomatic History (2012) and in the volume Paul Bowles-The New Generation Do You Bowles? (2014).
Peter Carpenter (MFA, PhD) is an Associate Professor of Dance at Columbia College Chicago where he teaches courses in choreography and dance studies. His choreography focuses on developing the political potential of the concert dance event.
Julian B. Carter is an Associate Professor of critical studies at the California College of the Arts. He is a critical historian and performance theorist whose work focuses on normativity, embodiment, and the collective construction and maintenance of identity systems. He is the author of The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1890-1940 (Duke University Press, 2007) and sits on the editorial board of the Trans Studies Quarterly.
Sandra Chatterjee (PhD, UCLA) works at the intersection of theory and artistic practice with a focus on queer, postcolonial, and migration studies. A choreographer and researcher, she has worked as a postdoctoral researcher on two projects at the Department of Music and Dance Studies, University of Salzburg (Traversing the Contemporary (pl.), Austrian Science Fund (FWF) P 24190-G15 and Dance and Migration Austrian Science Fund (FWF) WPK 32) and is a co-founder of the Post Natyam Collective. www.sandrachatterjee.net
Clare Croft is a dance historian, theorist, dramaturg, and curator. She is the author of Dancers as Diplomats: American Choreography in Cultural Exchange, and the editor and curator of Queer Dance. Croft is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, where she teaches in the BFA and MFA Dance programs.
thomas f. defrantz is Professor and Chair of African and African American Studies at Duke University, and director of SLIPPAGE: Performance, Culture, Technology, a research group that explores emerging technology in live performance applications. Books: Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance (University of Wisconsin Press, 2002), Dancing Revelations Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture, Black Performance Theory, co-edited with Anita Gonzalez (Duke University Press, 2014), Choreography and Corporeality: Relay in Motion, co-edited with Philipa Rothfield (Palgrave, 2016). Creative: Queer Theory! An Academic Travesty commissioned by the Theater Offensive of Boston and the Flynn Center for the Arts, and Monk's Mood: A Performance Meditation on the Life and Music of Thelonious Monk, performed in Botswana, France, South Africa, and New York City. He convenes the Black Performance Theory working group. In 2013, working with Takiyah Nur Amin, he founded the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance.
Nicholas Gareiss is a dancer and dance researcher creating work at the intersection of percussive dance, traditional music, and queer ethnography. He has concertized for over fifteen years with many of the luminaries of traditional Irish music and dance and continues to perform and teach internationally.
Doran George has a PhD tracing the historical development of Somatic training in contemporary dance. A funded artist, they research accessibility in dance to disabled people, and deconstruct identity in bodily performance. Doran is also published in journals and anthologies, produces symposia and conferences, and teaches in universities, art colleges, and in professional dance.
Lou Henry Hoover is a choreographer and performer who utilizes drag, dance, theater, and spectacle to make work that is celebrated internationally for being both comedic and heartfelt. Lou is best known for collaborative work as duo Kitten N' Lou.
Kareem Khubchandani is the Mellon Assistant Professor in the Department of Drama and Dance at Tufts University teaching at the intersections of queer studies and performance studies. He received his Ph.D. in performance studies from Northwestern University, and is working on a book project titled Ishtyle: Labor, Intimacy, and Dance in Gay South Asian Nightlife.
Hannah Kosstrin, Ph.D., is a dance historian who researches Jewishness and gender in modern and contemporary dance. At The Ohio State University, she is Assistant Professor in the Department of Dance and affiliated faculty with the Melton Center for Jewish Studies.
Cynthia Ling Lee (MFA, UCLA) creates interdisciplinary choreography and scholarship that instigate postcolonial, queer, and feminist-of-color interventions in the field of experimental South Asian performance.
Cynthia is a member of the Post Natyam Collective and an Assistant Professor of theatre arts at the University of California at Santa Cruz. www.cynthialinglee.com http://www.cynthialinglee.com
Patrick McKelvey is a visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at Florida State University. His current book project is Crip Enterprise: Disability Goes to Work in U.S. Performance.
Raquel Monroe (Ph.D. UCLA) is an Associate Professor in Dance at Columbia College Chicago.
Jennifer Monson is a choreographer and performer. She is the artistic director and founder of iLAND -interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature and Dance and a professor of dance at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.
Justin Torres is the author of the bestselling novel We the Animals, and his honors include a Stegner Fellowship, a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, and a Cullman Center Fellowship. Named one of The National Book Foundation's 2012 "5 Under 35," he is Assistant Professor of English at UCLA.
Anna Martine Whitehead is a movement artist and writer interrogating the poetics of space, time, and loss at the limits of performance. They write about black performance in the contemporary art world and have contributed chapters to several texts on queer dance, performance, and social practice.
Emily E. Wilcox is Assistant Professor of modern Chinese studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on dance and cultural history in Asia, with a focus on the People's Republic of China.
