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: University of the Arts Mobile MFA in Dance; ImPulsTanz; SNDO; Juilliard; New Waves Institute; MR; faculty at Hampshire College, Stanford, Yale, MIT, NYU, Northwestern University; University of Nice.

ID: Person with arms crossed leaning on a bench, smiling with dreadlocks. Photo courtesy the artist formerly known as Tommy.