Mark Franko

Mark Franko is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Dance and heads the Institute of Dance Scholarship at Temple University. Dancing Modernism/Performing Politics was reissued last year in a revised edition from Indiana University Press. Text as Dance: Walter Benjamin, Louis Marin and Choreographies of the Baroque is forthcoming from Bloomsbury.

Black and white portrait of Katherine Dunham leaping in the air

Border Crossings: Exile and American Modern Dance, 1900–1955

Dance scholars Mark Franko and Ninotchka Bennahum join the Quarterly’s Gillian Jakab in a conversation about the exhibition Border Crossings at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Cocurated by Bennahum and Bruce Robertson, the show reexamines twentieth-century modern dance in the context of war, exile, and injustice. An accompanying catalogue, coedited by Bennahum and Rena Heinrich and published earlier this year, bridges the New York presentation with its West Coast counterpart at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Contributor

Mark Franko

Border Crossings: Exile and American Modern Dance, 1900–1955

Artists

Contributors