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Maria Luigia Gioffrè

Maria Luigia Gioffrè is an artist and PhD practice-based researcher (2024-27) in the field of performing arts and theatre direction at Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica Silvio d’Amico, Rome, Italy. Between 2025 and 2026 she is a visiting PhD at Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp, affiliated at Creatie LAB. Her research focuses on mediated live theatricality emerging […]

Karel Tuytschaever

Karel Tuytschaever is an actor, filmmaker, and teaching artist currently finishing his PhD in the arts at the University of Antwerp (ARIA) and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. His research explores embodied presence, ethics of making and presentation, and lens-based practices, framed through the concept of the “Transparent Body.” Working across performance, film, […]

Faye Driscroll

Faye Driscoll is a Doris Duke Award-winning performance maker who has been hailed as a “startlingly original talent” by The New York Times and “a post-millenium postmodern wild woman” by The Village Voice. She was the 2021-2022 Randjelovic/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, a […]

Welsh, Kariamu. 1996. “Commonalities in African Dance: An Aesthetic Foundation”, in African Culture: The Rhythms of Unity, edited by Kariamu Welsh Asante and Molefi Kete Asante, 71-82, Westport: Greenwood Press.

In this chapter, Kariamu Welsh explores the aesthetic foundations and commonalities in African dance, highlighting its unifying elements and cultural expressions across the continent.

Van Assche, Annelies. 2020. Labor and Aesthetics in European Contemporary Dance : Dancing Precarity. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40693-6.

Annelies Van Assche examines the intersection of labor and aesthetics in European contemporary dance, highlighting the precarious conditions faced by dancers and the artistic responses to these challenges.

Dixon-Gottschild, Brenda. 2003. The Black Dancing Body: a Geography from Coon to Cool. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Brenda Dixon-Gottschild traces the evolution of the Black dancing body in American culture, from stereotypical representations to the emergence of cool aesthetics in dance.