Mark Franko has not only combined history, theory, and practice as a dancer and choreographer with his own company in New York in the 1980s. He has also consistently advocated for taking dance seriously as a practice in an academic context. He was recently elected a member of the British Academy, and his nine monographs are highly regarded and relevant within dance and humanities studies. His 1993 book Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body is a pillar of dance studies. The fact that valuable criticism can be formulated with and about dance, and that corresponding contributions also have an impact on broader humanities, is an achievement of recent decades, to which Franko played a key role.
Dance Studies
Building Bridges
As a dance scholar, dancer, and choreographer, Mark Franko has long combined practice and theory. This past summer, the widely recognized expert was a guest at the Freie Universität Berlin
Alphabet of figures by Giovanni Battista Bracelli from his Bizzarie di varie figure (1624), in Mark Franko’s Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body
From Drama to Dance
He is currently a professor at the Boyer College of Music ...
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