IDS Keynote Lecture & Workshop – Let’s Go Outside: Dancing Beyond the Institution by Dr. Thomas F. DeFrantz

The institutionalization of dance in academic settings has forced a reckoning with genre, access, aesthetics, and colonial histories, at least. This talk focuses on the ways that dance resists containment by institutions. Calling on the rhetorics of dance as protest, as erotic demonstration of possibility, and as manifestation of outrageous style, we wonder together at the ways dance arrives outside of the scaffolding of the linguistic, to demonstrate ways to be in relationship to authority while moving in another direction.