Book Chapters

We support advanced research in experimental performance by its collaborators, often resulting in print and digital publication. Review our Book Chapters below. 

Slippage has contributed to:

Resisting the Universal:Black Dance, Aesthetics, and the Afterlives of Slavery

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Dance and Philosophy, 2021

Caring for Black Corporealities

Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art, 2020

The Future Histories of Black Dance

Dance History(s): Imagination as a Form of Study, 2024

The Black Body Arrives

Competing Choreographies: 10 Years of the Keir Choreographic Award, 2024

Moving Outside the Race: African American Dance Artistry Before Civil Rights

Border Crossings: Exile and American Modern Dance, edited by Ninotchka Bennahum and Rena Heinrich, 2023

Blondell Cummings: A Personal Postmodernism

Blondell Cummings: Dance as Moving Pictures, edited by Kristin Juarez, Rebecca Peabody, Glenn Phillips, 2021

This Stage Is Not A Safe Space ON

Dancing Transnational Feminisms: Ananya Dance Theatre and The Art of Social Justice, edited by Ananya Chatterjea, Jui Wilcox, and Alessandra Williams, 2022

DANCE ON

Black Art and Aesthetics: Relationalities, Interiorities, Reckonings, edited by Michael Kelly & Monique Roelofs, 2024

duet of strangers

Let’s Not Get Used to This Place Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods, edited by Julie De Meester, Astrid Kaminski, Jeroen Versteele, 2024

dear Alvin

Edges of Ailey, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2024

The Small Things Add Up

Being Black in the Ivory: Truth-Telling About Racism in Higher Education edited by Shardé M. Davis, 2023

Ballet’s Ever-Present Presence

Antiracism in Ballet Teaching edited by Kate Mattingly and Iyun Ashani Harrison, Routledge, 2023

The Race of Contemporary Ballet cover

The Race of Contemporary Ballet: Interpellations of Africanist Aesthetics

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet edited by Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel and Jill Nunes Jensen, 2021

Thinking Through Theater cover

What is Black Dance? What Can it Do?

Thinking Through Theatre and Performance, 2019.

Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance cover

Dancing the Interface: Improvisation in Zones of Virtual Exchange

The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance, edited by Vida L. Midgelow, 2019.

The Sentient Archive cover

THEM: Recombinant Aesthetics of Restaging Experimental Performance

The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory, edited by Bill Bissell 2018

QueerDance book cover

Queer Dance in Three Acts

Queer Dance: Meanings & Makings edited by Clare Croft, 2017

oxford handbook and dance and politics cover

Switch: Queer Social Dance, Political Leadership, and Black Popular Culture

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics, edited by Rebekah J. Kowal, Gerald Siegmund, and Randy Martin, 2017

Relay in motion

Afrofuturist Remains: A Speculative Rendering of Social Dance Futures v2.0

Choreography and Corporeality: RELAY in Motion, edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz and Philipa Rothfield, 2016

Dance Dramaturgy cover

Field Notes: In the Studio with Ralph Lemon and Donald Byrd

Dance Dramaturgy: Modes of Agency, Awareness and Engagement, edited by Pil Hansen and Darcey Callison, 2015

Black Performance Theory

Hip-Hop Habitus V.2.0

Black Performance Theory, edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz and Anita Gonzalez, 2014.

Introduction: From ‘Negro Expression’ to ‘Black Performance

Black Performance Theory, edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz and Anita Gonzalez, 2014

Oxford Handbook of Dance and Popular Screen cover

Hip-Hop in Hollywood: Encounter, Community, Resistance

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen, edited by Melissa Blanco Borelli, 2014

Oxford handbook of dance and reenactment

Black Dance after Race

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity, edited by Anthony Shay and Barbara Sellers-Young, 2014

Introducing the new sexuality studies

Wait…hip hop sexualities

Introducing the New Sexuality Studies, Original Essays and Interviews, edited by Steven Seidman, Nancy Fischer, Chet Meeks, 2011

Aint Nothing Like the real Thing

Popular African American Dance of the 1950s and ‘60s

Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing, edited by Richard Carlin and Kinshasha Holman Conwill, 2010

Popular Dance of the 1920s and Early ‘30s, From Animal Dance Crazes to the Lindy Hop

Black Metropolis: New York City’s Harlem, 1914 to 1934

Dance, 2008 Donald Byrd

Donald Byrd, Re/making ‘beauty’

Dance, 2008

Of the Presence of the Body cover

The Black Beat Made Visible, Hip Hop Dance and Body Power

Of the Presence of the Body, Essays on Dance and Performance Theory, edited by Andre Lepecki, 2004

Moving History Dance Cultures

Simmering Passivity: The Black Male Body in Concert Dance

Moving History/Dance Cultures, 2001

Dancing Many Drums cover

African American Dance: A Complex History

Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance, edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz, 2001

Ballet in Black screenshot

Ballet in Black: Louis Johnson and African American Vernacular Humour in Ballet

2000

Theatrical In(ter)ventions 1998

To Make Black Bodies Strange, Social Critique in Concert Dance of the Black Arts Movement

Theatrical In(ter)ventions, 1998

Slippage has contributed to:

duet of strangers

Let’s Not Get Used to This Place Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods, edited by Julie De Meester, Astrid Kaminski, Jeroen Versteele, 2024

dear Alvin

Edges of Ailey, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2024

The Small Things Add Up

Being Black in the Ivory: Truth-Telling About Racism in Higher Education edited by Shardé M. Davis, 2023

Ballet’s Ever-Present Presence

Antiracism in Ballet Teaching edited by Kate Mattingly and Iyun Ashani Harrison, Routledge, 2023

The Race of Contemporary Ballet cover

The Race of Contemporary Ballet: Interpellations of Africanist Aesthetics

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet edited by Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel and Jill Nunes Jensen, 2021

Thinking Through Theater cover

What is Black Dance? What Can it Do?

Thinking Through Theatre and Performance, 2019.

Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance cover

Dancing the Interface: Improvisation in Zones of Virtual Exchange

The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance, edited by Vida L. Midgelow, 2019.

The Sentient Archive cover

THEM: Recombinant Aesthetics of Restaging Experimental Performance

The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory, edited by Bill Bissell 2018

QueerDance book cover

Queer Dance in Three Acts

Queer Dance: Meanings & Makings edited by Clare Croft, 2017

oxford handbook and dance and politics cover

Switch: Queer Social Dance, Political Leadership, and Black Popular Culture

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics, edited by Rebekah J. Kowal, Gerald Siegmund, and Randy Martin, 2017

Relay in motion

Afrofuturist Remains: A Speculative Rendering of Social Dance Futures v2.0

Choreography and Corporeality: RELAY in Motion, edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz and Philipa Rothfield, 2016

Dance Dramaturgy cover

Field Notes: In the Studio with Ralph Lemon and Donald Byrd

Dance Dramaturgy: Modes of Agency, Awareness and Engagement, edited by Pil Hansen and Darcey Callison, 2015

Black Performance Theory

Hip-Hop Habitus V.2.0

Black Performance Theory, edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz and Anita Gonzalez, 2014.

Introduction: From ‘Negro Expression’ to ‘Black Performance

Black Performance Theory, edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz and Anita Gonzalez, 2014

Oxford Handbook of Dance and Popular Screen cover

Hip-Hop in Hollywood: Encounter, Community, Resistance

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen, edited by Melissa Blanco Borelli, 2014

Oxford handbook of dance and reenactment

Black Dance after Race

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity, edited by Anthony Shay and Barbara Sellers-Young, 2014

Introducing the new sexuality studies

Wait…hip hop sexualities

Introducing the New Sexuality Studies, Original Essays and Interviews, edited by Steven Seidman, Nancy Fischer, Chet Meeks, 2011

Aint Nothing Like the real Thing

Popular African American Dance of the 1950s and ‘60s

Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing, edited by Richard Carlin and Kinshasha Holman Conwill, 2010

Popular Dance of the 1920s and Early ‘30s, From Animal Dance Crazes to the Lindy Hop

Black Metropolis: New York City’s Harlem, 1914 to 1934

Dance, 2008 Donald Byrd

Donald Byrd, Re/making ‘beauty’

Dance, 2008

Of the Presence of the Body cover

The Black Beat Made Visible, Hip Hop Dance and Body Power

Of the Presence of the Body, Essays on Dance and Performance Theory, edited by Andre Lepecki, 2004

Moving History Dance Cultures

Simmering Passivity: The Black Male Body in Concert Dance

Moving History/Dance Cultures, 2001

Dancing Many Drums cover

African American Dance: A Complex History

Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance, edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz, 2001

Ballet in Black screenshot

Ballet in Black: Louis Johnson and African American Vernacular Humour in Ballet

2000

Theatrical In(ter)ventions 1998

To Make Black Bodies Strange, Social Critique in Concert Dance of the Black Arts Movement

Theatrical In(ter)ventions, 1998

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