NEA supports project led by Duke Dance professor Thomas DeFrantz

The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance (CADD), a community that supports scholars and artists committed to dance of the African diaspora, has been awarded $25,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts, the organization announced on May 12. 

Dr. Thomas F. DeFrantz, professor in both the Dance Program and the Department of African and African American Studies, is a founding member of the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance. He wrote the grant to support the project, “Dancing the African Diaspora: Digital Publications from the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance,” which aims to create an integrated system of digital publications, webinars, and recorded lectures providing information and analyses of African diaspora dance and its continuing possibilities. Learn more here.