Thomas DeFratz Directs SLIPPAGE@Duke:Performance|Culture|Technology; group explores emerging technology in live performance. Received 2017 Outstanding Research in Dance award, Dance Studies Association. Believes in our shared capacity to do better, and engage our creative spirit for a collective good that is anti-racist, anti-homophobic, proto-feminist, and queer affirming. Contributed concept and voice-over for permanent installation on Black Social Dance at Smithsonian Museum of African American Life. Writer and director, Queer Theory! An Academic Travesty commissioned by Theater Offensive of Boston and Flynn Center for the Arts;fastDANCEpast, created for Detroit Institute for the Arts; reVERSE-gesture-reVIEW commissioned by Nasher Museum in response to work of Kara Walker. Recent performances with Netta Yerushalmy and Kathy Westwater. Books: Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance (2002), Dancing Revelations Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture (2004), , co-edited with Anita Gonzalez (2014), >u class="">Choreography and Corporeality: Relay in Motion, co-edited with Philipa Rothfield (2016), , co-edited with Kathy Perkins, Sandra Richards, and Renee Alexander Craft (2018). Recent teaching: University of the Arts Mobile MFA in Dance; Lion’s Jaw Festival; Movement Research MELT; ImPulsTanz; New Waves Institute; faculty at Hampshire College, Stanford, Yale, MIT, NYU, Duke, University of Nice. Founding member, Collegium for African Diaspora Dance.>span class="">