Black, Indigenous, and People of Color dance artists and teachers have undertaken immense labor to enact anti-racist work. These resources below must be activated by white accomplices to end white supremacy. - Anna

Dance in American Colleges/Universities

Here Black Dance Scholarship by Black Dance Scholars

Here Message from Ohio State University Dance Department chair Dr. Nadine George-Graves

Here Grad students at Ohio State University formed an Anti-Racist Working Group (formed 2019) have been leading workshops

Here Dance Studies Association statement and action-plan

Here Dancing While Black journal launch video conversation

Here Nyama McCarthy-Brown’s book Dancing Pedagogy for a Diverse World

Here Recognizing Systemic Racism in Dance

Here Are College Curriculums Too White

Here SDSU Pledge to make by faculty 

Here For Black Feminists


Teaching and Academia 

Here Academics for Black Survival and Wellness: Anti-Racist Resources LIST

Here Academics for Black Survival and Wellness: Take Action LIST

Here Teachers must hold each other accountable

Here White Academics, Do Better

Here Speaking up at school guide

Here Letter to my colleagues 

Here Your Black colleagues are not okay 

Here Why I will be offering my courses online this fall 

 

Dance as Protest

Here NYTimes Black Lives Matter protests in dance

Here Washington Post dance in LA protests

Here Dance Protest List by MiRi Park:


Dance Institutions

Here: Melanie Greene and J. Boey in NYTimes with multiple activist dance artists organizing referenced

Here: Creating New Futures documents 

Here: An Open Letter to Arts Organizations Rampant with White Supremacy by dance artist Nana Chinara and directly also towards Gibney

Here: Dance Union Town Hall for Collective Action zoom conversation

Here: The Deafening Silence of Dance Organizations by Gregory King


By MiRi Park: Critical Dance Studies readings about dance and protest/choreography of protest:

These readings are organized by DATE (most recent to least)



By MiRi Park: Related Readings from the fields of Performance Studies, social movement studies, intersectional feminism (alpha-order):

  • Anzaldua, Gloria. The Bridge Called My Back. 2015, 2008, 1983, 1981 (1st ed).

  • Brooks, Daphne. Bodies in dissent: Spectacular performances of race and freedom, 1850-1910. Duke UP, 2006.

  • Cohen Cruz, Jan. Radical Street Performance: an international Anthology. New York: Routledge, 2013. Introduction excerpts: Agit-prop, Witness, Integration, Utopia, Tradition.

  • Cox, Aimee. "Moving the Field: Young Black Women, Performances of Self, and Creative Protest in Postindustrial Spaces." Feminist Activist Ethnography: Counterpoints to Neoliberalism in North America (2013): 181-200.

  • Gottschild, Brenda. The black dancing body: A geography from coon to cool. Springer, 2016.

  • Fuentes, Marcela A. "Performance Constellations: Memory and Event in Digitally Enabled Protests in the Americas." Text and Performance Quarterly 35.1 (2015): 24-42.

  • Fuentes, Marcela A. "Performance, Politics, and Protest.” in What is Performance Studies? Duke UP, introduction and online resource (2012). http://scalar.usc.edu/nehvectors/wips/performance-politics-andprotest

  • Fuentes, Marcela A. Performance Constellations: Networks of Protest and Activism in Latin America. University of Michigan Press, 2019.

  • Fuentes, Marcela Alejandra. "‘Investments Towards Returns’: Protest and Performance in the Era of Financial Crises." Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 21.3 (2012): 449-468.

  • Kershaw, Baz. "Ecoactivist Performance: The Environment As Partner in Protest?." TDR/The Drama Review, 46.1 (2002): 118-130.

  • Klien, Michael. Choreography as an Aesthetics of Change. 2008. Edinburgh College of Art, PhD dissertation. http://michaelklien.com/resource/download/phd-klien-main-document.pdf

  • Kealiinohomoku, Joann. "An anthropologist looks at ballet as a form of ethnic dance." Impulse 20 (1970): 24-33.

  • Kuppers, Petra. Disability culture and community performance: Find a strange and twisted shape. Springer, 2011.

  • Lepecki, André. The Choreopolitical: Agency in the Age of Control in Routledge Companion to Art and Politics. Randy Martin, Ed. New York: Routledge, 2015, p. 44-52.

  • Madison, D. Soyini. “Act III: Acts of Activism.” Acts of Activism: Human Rights as Radical Performance. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. 2010. 157-223.

  • McKenzie, Jon. "Abu Ghraib and the Society of the Spectacle of the Scaffold." Violence performed: Local roots and global routes of conflict (2009): 338-356.

  • Muñoz, José Esteban. Disidentifications: Queers of color and the performance of politics. Vol. 2. U of Minnesota Press, 1999.

  • Phelan, Peggy. Unmarked: The politics of performance. Routledge, 2003.

  • Wong, Yutian, ed. Contemporary Directions in Asian American Dance. University of Wisconsin Pres, 2016.


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Here When Black People Are In Pain, White People Just Join Book Clubs

Here Kimberly Jones How Can We Win

Here White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

Here 16 Gifs Experienced in the Break/room

Here Introduction to Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique E. Morris