effie bowen’s DANCESPORT and Wilmer Wilson IV’s Channel

Abstract

This is a performance review of DANCESPORT by effie bowen and Channel by Wilmer Wilson IV through the lens of liveness.

Keywords:

• effie bowen
• Wilmer Wilson IV
• dance
• queer performance
• fugitivity
• biopolitics
• sociality
• spectatorship
• relation
• performance
• non-humanism
• endurance performance
• black performance
• bios

Acknowledgment

Thank you to Donna Faye Burchfield for the shared thinking and study that made this writing possible.

Note on contributor

Lauren Bakst is an artist and writer living in New York. She works in, with, and through dance, approaching the situation of performing as an object of inquiry.