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author
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Mark Franko is a Professor of Dance and Chair of the Theater
Arts Department at the University
of California, Santa Cruz. He is the
author
of The Work of Dance: Labor, Movement, and Identity in the
1930's (Stanford University Press, forthcoming), Dancing
Modernism/Performing Politics, Dance as Text: Ideologies
of the Baroque Body, and The Dancing Body in Renaissance
Choreography. He is the co-editor of Acting on the Past:
Historical Performance Across the Disciplines. His articles
on dance and performance have appeared in Discourse, PMLA,
The Drama Review, Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics,
Theatre Journal, and in numerous anthologies.
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performer
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Mark Franko has maintained a
unique dance
career bridging and
intertwining practice and theory. He and his
company, NovAntiqua, have been performing in the
United States and abroad since 1985. Franko's
dancing background is diverse: he began his dance
career with Paul Sanasardo Dance Company, later
appeared in classical repertory, as well as in
Oskar Schlemmer's "Bauhaus Dances" under the
direction of Debra McCall.
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choreographer
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Mark Franko's choreography
has been supported by the National Endowment for
the Arts, the Harkness Foundation for Dance, the
Getty Research Center for the History of Art and
the Humanities, the Zellerbach Family Fund and the
New Jersey State Council on the Arts. NovAntiqua
has appeared at the J. Paul Getty Museum (Malibu),
the Berlin Werkstatt Festival, the de la Torre
Bueno Award Ceremony (Lincoln Center, New York),
France's Toulon Art Museum, the Montpellier Opera,
Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Festival, the Princeton
University Theater and Dance Series, the Haggerty
Art Museum (Milwaukee), and ODC Theatre San
Francisco.
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Photos by Marty Sohl, Beatriz Schiller, Ernestine Ruben,
Tom Caravaglia,
Midori Shinye, Lillian Gee, and Craig Schwartz (courtesy of
the J. Paul Getty Trust)
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