Notes
1 Wyatt Madison, “The Transcendent Artistry of a Legendary Dancer, Four Decades In,” New York Times Magazine, June 6, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/06/t-magazine/bill-t-jones-dance-choreography.html (accessed August 7, 2023).
2 Nereson takes the term “post/modern” dance from Jose L. Reynoso, “Democracy’s Body, Neoliberalism’s Body: The Ambivalent Search for Egalitarianism Within the Contemporary Post/Modern Dance Tradition,” Dance Research Journal 51, no. 1 (2019): 48.
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Rachel Carrico
RACHEL CARRICO is an Assistant Professor of Dance Studies at the University of Florida’s School of Theatre + Dance. Her forthcoming book, Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line (University of Illinois Press), explores the aesthetic, political, and social histories of second lining, an improvisational dance form rooted in New Orleans’s African diaspora parading traditions. Her scholarship has been published in several journals and edited volumes; awarded the Society of Dance History Scholars’ Selma Jeanne Cohen Award for excellence in dance scholarship; and supported by numerous fellowships. Carrico holds a PhD in Critical Dance Studies from the University of California–Riverside, an MA in Performance Studies from New York University, and a teaching certificate from the Limón Institute. She parades in New Orleans annually with the Ice Divas Social & Pleasure Club.