Black Performance Theory

This working group continues a conversation begun in 1998 at Duke University, at the one-day conference “Reading, Writing, and Representin’: Performance and the Subjects of Race” curated by Richard C. Green.

The bulk of the working group time is devoted to discussion, with the aim of raising more questions and hopefully establishing frames for black performance critique and analysis.

Announcing a colloquium and discussion group to meet at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, 18-20 2007, sponsored by the Northwestern Department of Performance Studies, Alice Berline Kaplan Humanities Institute Mellon Grant, SLIPPAGE: Performance, Culture Technology at MIT, and hosted by Jennifer Brody, E. Patrick Johnson, and Harvey Young, convened with Thomas F. DeFrantz.