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Professor DeFrantz directs the SLIPPAGE laboratory, a research group that explores emerging technology in live performance applications. The lab works on live-processing interfaces that can help us with theatrical renderings of alternative histories, and telling stories that might be less well known than others. They create performances that tour the US and beyond.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Performance Studies, PhD, New York University
Music Composition,Theater Studies,Computer Science, BA, Yale University
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Race, Black Dance, and the Embodied Geographies of Freedom
DeFrantz, T. F. (PD/PI)
1/1/23 → 12/31/25
Project: Research project
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Black Ballet Research Collaborative’s anthology on the Dance Theatre of Harlem
DeFrantz, T. F. (PD/PI)
University of North Carolina School of the Arts
9/1/23 → 8/31/24
Project: Research project
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The future has always been black; A dancing-word manifesto
DeFrantz, T. F., Jan 31 2025, The Performance Studies Reader: Fourth Edition. Taylor and Francis, p. 425-430 6 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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BALLET’S EVER-PRESENT PRESENCE
DeFrantz, T. F., Jan 1 2023, Antiracism in Ballet Teaching. Taylor and Francis, p. 155-163 9 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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DANCE ON
DeFrantz, T. F., Jan 1 2023, Black Art and Aesthetics: Relationalities, Interiorities, Reckonings. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., p. 313-321 9 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Editors’ Note: Assembly, Gathering and Being with Dance
DeFrantz, T. F., Johnson, J. & Mullis, E., Aug 1 2023, In: Dance Research Journal. 55, 2, p. 1-4 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Introduction to Research in Dance Studies: Dance as a Humanity
DeFrantz, T. F., Jan 1 2023, Dance Research Methodologies: Ethics, Orientations, and Practices. Taylor and Francis, p. 107-112 6 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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