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THOMAS F DEFRANTZ

Thomas F. DeFrantz directs SLIPPAGE: Performance|Culture|Technology, a research group that explores emerging technology in live performance applications, currently in residence at Duke University.  DeFrantz received the 2017 Outstanding Research in Dance award from the Dance Studies Association. DeFrantz believes in our shared capacity to do better, and to engage our creative spirit for a collective good that is anti-racist, anti-homophobic, proto-feminist, and queer affirming. DeFrantz acted as a consultant for the Smithsonian Museum of African American Life and Culture,  contributing concept and a voice-over for a permanent installation on Black Social Dance that opened with the museum in 2016. Recent teaching: University of the Arts Mobile MFA in Dance; ImPulsTanz; New Waves Institute; Bates Dance Festival ; faculty at Hampshire College, Stanford, Yale, MIT, NYU, University of Nice. In 2013, working with Takiyah Nur Amin, DeFrantz founded the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance, a growing consortium of 300 researchers.  slippage.org.