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Above: The face of a white woman with honey-colored curly hair, smiling, head tilted slightly to the left. No credit to the photographer. Courtesy Kate Mattingly.
This spring, the author Kate Mattingly publish Shaping the Code of Dance: Criticism, Aesthetics, Equity, an analysis of decades of dance criticism in the United States (University Press of Florida). As a white woman, she has a responsibility to speak out about white supremacy. In today’s talk, she shares her thoughts on how white supremacy has historically defined and dominated dance criticism and continues to suppress women in academia.
Dr. Mattingly was New York Times, village voice, dance magazineand pointe magazine and is deputy editor dance chronicle. She is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.
Listen to Dr. Mattingly’s speech body and soul podcast here.
Below: Profile of two dancers, a black man and a white woman, his right hand holding hers while she leans against him. He stood firmly in a lunge position as she leaned on her left hip. Image of Troy Blackwell and Kate Mattingly at William Forsythe’s Steptext workshop at New York University. (Photo: Peter A. Smith)
Kate Mattingly (S/he) is committed to promoting equity in dance education. As an Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University, she teaches ballet, dance history, principles of teaching, dance studies, and graduate research methods. her book, shaping dance norms, questions how critics contribute to a racialized dance canon by excluding opportunities for certain artists and dance forms while creating validity for others. Her work was published in New York Times, village voice, dance and Pointe Magazine, Washington postand academic journals. She is about to publish an anthology titled Anti-racism in ballet teaching, to be published by Routledge. Kate’s BA in Architecture is from Princeton University, her MFA in Dance is from New York University, and her PhD is from UC Berkeley in New Media Performance Studies.
Shaping the Code of Dance: Criticism, Aesthetics, Equity (University Press of Florida, 2023)
dance chronicle,Executive Editor
special issue: “Interrogating history and historicizing dance studies”
