Thomas F. DeFrantz directs SLIPPAGE: Performance|Culture|Technology, a research lab that explores emerging technology in live performance applications. Believes in our shared capacity to do better and engage creative spirit for a collective good that is anti-racist, proto-feminist, and queer affirming. Recent teaching: Bennington College Lo-Res MFA in Dance; ImPulsTanz; SNDO; Juilliard; New Waves Institute; MR; faculty at Hampshire College, Stanford, Yale, MIT, NYU, Northwestern University; University of Nice. Co-editor with Annie-B Parson of Dance History(s): Imagination as a Form of Study (2024).
ID: A beige man wearing a black turtleneck shirt sits for a portrait, and tilts his head with green eyes towards the viewer, his head crowned by reddish dreadlocks and a 'mona lisa' smile. Photo courtesy the artist.
