Entry to the Paramodernities Portal provides full access to performance documentation, essays by collaborators, and related research & resources. Access is automatically renewed monthly but can be stopped at any time.

For discounted access, please contact us using the form below and let us know about your unique circumstance.

> What gets excluded from the modern stage? > How many modernities are there? > What do staged bodies signify, other than their mere form? > If dance is a kind of knowledge, what kind of knowledge is it? > What are the power relations between a moving body and a speaking body? > When can a choreography shock us into thought? > Is a legacy public, and what can we legitimately do to it? > Who has the right to dance what? > What does it mean to repeat choreography?

Geared towards educational use, this portal provides access and augmented resources to Paramodernities, a six-part series of lecture-performances generated through deconstructions and discussions of landmark modern choreographies.

Through movement and text, the six installments devoted to iconic dance artists - Vaslav Nijinsky, Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, Merce Cunningham, Bob Fosse, and George Balanchine - treat their paradigmatic modernist choreographies as catapults to wider concerns: cultural and historical inquiry, poetry and memoir, critical race theory and disabilities studies, philosophy and art history, to name just a few.

With a subscription, you can sign up for a minimum of one-month to access content for your educational needs. Subscriptions can be canceled at any time.

MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS

  • Access to all six videos of Paramodernities [including Audio Description and Closed Captioning]

  • Original choreographic sources

  • Commissioned essays and performances texts by Paramodernities writers

    • David Kishik, Carol Ockman, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Claudia La Rocco, Julia Foulkes, Georgina Kleege and Mara Mills

  • Suggested reading lists

  • Themes and questions to assist in building syllabi

  • Pre-recorded conversations with esteemed authors, scholars and performance artists from our Paramodernities Live screenings

    • Jack Halberstam, Jeremy O. Harris, Peter N. Miller, Fred Moten, Tracy K. Smith, Pam Tanowitz

  • Online discussion forum available to all subscribers where members can engage more deeply with the work and one another, fostering direct dialogue with the creators of Paramodernities.

IN-PERSON STUDIO WORKSHOPS

If you or your associated educational institution would like to augment and deepen your engagement with these materials and methodologies through live and embodied studio practice workshops with Netta and/or artists/scholars from the Paramodernities team, please reach out to us.

*In-Person workshops are not included in the Portal membership and will entail a separate fee and agreement.*

Contact us with any questions or for discounted access.