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Welcome to Combo CLASS

I am so happy you are here!

Below you will find all class materials for COMBO CLASS: a full syllabus, scheduled materials, and bonus suggested materials.


I recommend bookmarking this page for ease of access.


If you have trouble accessing any of the materials, please reach out to me. This content lives in a GoogleDrive as well, which I am happy to provide if preferred.


Sourcing for this course was a collaborative effort, across a few states and institutions. Thanks to the academics on the inside that want to keep scholarly work and research accessible.

Series Syllabus

Download Link

Downloads: Scheduled Readings

hooks - Theory As Liberatory Practice (pdf)Download
Banes - Power and the Dancing Body (pdf)Download
Halberstam - Low Theory (Queer Art of Failure Introduction) (pdf)Download
Gutierrez - Does Abstraction Belong to White People (pdf)Download
McMillan - Performing Objects (pdf)Download
DeFrantz - I Am Black (pdf)Download
Johnson - Solange and Her Dance (pdf)Download
McMillan - What White Women Gave Me (pdf)Download
Reynoso - Democracy's Body, Neoliberalism's Body (pdf)Download
Muto - Choreography as Meshwork (pdf)Download
Gumbs et al - Imagining Liberatory Futures (pdf)Download

Links: Scheduled Material

Disability in Dance, with Kayla Hamilton and Jerron Herman

The Dance Union, Soundcloud

Dancers DO Deserve Better, with Antuan Byers, Nile Ruff, and Terrell Rogers

The Dance Union, Soundcloud

Emergent Strategy, with adrienne maree brown

The Stoa, Youtube

Downloads: Suggested Readings

Collins - Politics of Black Feminist Thought (pdf)Download
Crenshaw - Mapping Margins (pdf)Download
Nelson - Practice-as-Research and the Problem of Knowlege (pdf)Download
Kwan - When Is Contemporary Dance (pdf)Download
Scholieri - An Interesting Experiment in Eugenics (pdf)Download
Munoz - Performing Disidentification (Disidentifications Introduction) (pdf)Download
Albright - Dancing Bodies and the Stories They Tell (pdf)Download
McMillan - Be Still and Know (pdf)Download

Links: Suggested Material

"This Bridge Called My Ass" Context Video

Miguel Gutierrez/The Chocolate Factory Theater, Vimeo

Untitled Duet or Oo-Ga-La

Ishmael Houston Jones and Fred Holland/Danspace Project, Vimeo

When I Get Home

Solange Knowles, Apple Music

Beg, Borrow, and Steal (Back)

Are You For Sale?, Pocketcasts

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