FEB 9 at 2:30-4PM | ROOM 125, MEMORIAL HALL | FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | RSVP By Emailing Rachel at rcarrico@stanford.edu

The Stanford Colloquium on Dance Studies presents this talk on “Centering Race in Dance Research: Dancers as Diplomats in the Archive and the Interview” with Clare Croft, Assistant Professor of Dance, University of Michigan.

In this talk, dance historian and theorist Clare Croft, author of the recently published Dancers as Diplomats: American Choreography in Cultural Exchange (Oxford 2015), considers how dance research requires a specific attunement to questions of race and racism. How does dance research locate racism among bodies? In the archive? In interviews? Croft considers these questions in relationship to the archival work, performance analysis, and 70+ interviews with dancers that form the spine of Dancers as Diplomats, while also gesturing toward how these questions might guide her new work on dance critic and lesbian activist Jill Johnston.

The Stanford Colloquium on Dance Studies is sponsored by the Mellon “Dance Studies in/and the Humanities” initiative and is generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Additional funding provided by Stanford’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity, and administrative support provided by the Department of Theater & Performance Studies.