Dancing the Museum Black: Activist Animations of the Social

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_6154
dc.contributor.author	DeFrantz Thomas F.
dc.title	Dancing the Museum Black: Activist Animations of the Social
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This chapter considers concepts of activism and Black presence in experiences of dance in museums. Working through concepts of Afropessimism, Afrofuturism, and the theoretical gathering notion of a Black Commons, I will offer four case studies of dance in the museum that render the space towards collective Black possibilities. The choreographic works Dapline! (2016), fastPASTdance (2017), as well as a reconstruction of Instead of Allowing Some Thing to Rise Up to Your Face Dancing Bruce and Dance and Other Things (2000) and the moving-image object APESHIT (2018) offer evidence of a special possibility for Black dance in the museum space; a creation of social space too-often denied to Black people in diaspora.
dc.relation.ispartof	The Future Contemporary
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2021-09-16
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-04-15
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-535-3/dancing-the-museum-black-activist-animations-of-th/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-534-6/010
dc.identifier.issn	2785-1613
dc.identifier.eissn	2785-0986
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-535-3
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-534-6
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Activism
dc.subject	Activism
dc.subject	Afrofuturism
dc.subject	Afrofuturism
dc.subject	Afropessimism
dc.subject	Afropessimism
dc.subject	Black Commons
dc.subject	Black Commons
dc.subject	Black dance
dc.subject	Black dance

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Dancing the Museum Black: Activist Animations of the Social

Thomas F. DeFrantz Northwestern University, USA

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This chapter considers concepts of activism and Black presence in experiences of dance in museums. Working through concepts of Afropessimism, Afrofuturism, and the theoretical gathering notion of a Black Commons, I will offer four case studies of dance in the museum that render the space towards collective Black possibilities. The choreographic works Dapline! (2016), fastPASTdance (2017), as well as a reconstruction of Instead of Allowing Some Thing to Rise Up to Your Face Dancing Bruce and Dance and Other Things (2000) and the moving-image object APESHIT (2018) offer evidence of a special possibility for Black dance in the museum space; a creation of social space too-often denied to Black people in diaspora.

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Sept. 16, 2021

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April 15, 2021

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978-88-6969-535-3

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978-88-6969-534-6

Keywords: Black Commons • Afrofuturism • Black dance • Activism • Afropessimism

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