To look at dance among histories of ideas is to see an ever-contested site. Dance has been and can be (either metaphorically or actually) so many movements: The orbits of constellations, the wayfinding of bees, the generative energy of creation, the spiritual march toward death, ritual communion with spiritual forces, or (in what is so often considered its most standard or ‘truest’ form) the choreographed artwork. In some senses, dance is an agitator. It kicks up the dust around some particularly difficult questions about the relations of moving bodies and the world (which, itself, is a moving body).

Bio. — CV.

What’s New:

• I’m in an ARTE documentary by Bastien Gens called Danse Mortelle, talking about Paracelsus and  the 1518 St Vitus dance. Watch it online: https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/122554-001-A/danse-mortelle/  
• I presented a new performance lecture at Tanzquartier Wien’s Winter School (curated by Anna Leon) on 24 January 2026.
• As of December 2025, the special issue of Interface Critique I’ve co-edited with Nina Tolksdorf is finally out!

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

 

2026. “Travelling into the Dark: The Circumpolar North, Indigenous Art, and Settler Aesthetics of Remoteness“ in: ARTS Journal 15, 44: Artistic Imagination and Social Imaginaries, Laura Hellsten and Eduardo Abrantes, eds.

2025. “Pellicle and Portrait: A Historiography of Face, Race, and Interface in Media Theory (Thinking into the Cracks Between Lavater, Dagognet, & Galloway)” in: Interface Critique Vol. 5: Conversing the Book. 

2025. “Cannibal Choreographies: Anthropology, Anthropophagy, and Modernist Dance in the Americas“ (proof PDF linked here). In: Moderner Tanz – revisited, Miriam Althammer, Anja K. Arend, Eike Wittrock eds. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, pp. 119-132.

Other News:

• The opening symposium of the three-year collaborative research project Studies in Remoteness, titled “Duplicity/Duplicität: Betwixt intimates and strangers”, was held in Berlin at the Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, Freie Universität on 29-31 January 2026. Further information here.
• The three year project Studies in Remoteness has been selected by the Nordic Summer University as a part of its study programme for 2026-2028. I’ll be co-coordinating the project with the artist Helena Hildur W.
• I’ve been awarded a short-term fellowship at the Herzog August Bibliothek, where I will be in residence March-April and September-October 2026, working on my second book project.
• Stay tuned for publication Imagination and Performing Bodies co-edited by Elizabeth Claire, Beatrice Delaurenti, Roberto Poma, and Koen Vermeir, to be published by Brepols in July 2026. The volume will include my chapter on Paracelsus’s late writings on the St Vitus’ Dance.