Decolonizing Dance: Home

Addresses the interdisciplinary and global scope of dance theory - its political philosophy, social movements, and approaches to bodily difference such as disability,postcolonial, and critical race and queer studies.

A reckoning with white cultural power and a call to action, this book locates the work of curating performance in conversations about social change, with a special focus on advancing racial equity in the live arts.

Presents contemporary dance as a site of decolonization by composing a kaleidoscopic vision of dance as a process of becoming in entangled time/space, where movement is both a political and kinesthetic manifestation of African philosophies of feminism and interdependence.

Argues that the identity of “dancer” is not solely obtained by movement – it is also highly contingent on social categories like race/ethnicity and age as well as access to training spaces and notions of “appropriate” participation.