@dancermlove
Interdisciplinary tap dance artist, scholar, and professor.
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Writing and Scholarship
Michael J. Love, "Introduction to a Term: (Rhy)pistemology" in b2o: an online journal (May '25
Michael J. Love, "Introduction to a Term: (Rhy)pistemology" in b2o: an online journal (May '25
“(RHY)PISTEMOLOGY! (OR, TO KNOW THROUGH THE RHYTHM). Michael J. Love at Fusebox Festival (4-12-23) by Sarah Annie Navarrete. This article is part of the b2o: an online journal special issue "(Rhy)pistemologies", edited by Erin Graff Zivin. Introduction to a Term: (Rhy)pistemology Michael J. Love Introduction (Rhy)pistemology. Noun. Knowledge and/ or knowledge verification through rhythm, especially...
Michael J. Love, "Mix(tap)ing: A method for sampling the past to envision the future" in Choreographic Practices (July '21)
Michael J. Love, "Mix(tap)ing: A method for sampling the past to envision the future" in Choreographic Practices (July '21)
This article outlines the theoretical and aesthetic considerations of Love’s performance-as-research method for developing interdisciplinary tap dance work – a method he identifies as Mix(tap)ing. By first narrating how he arrived to his current practice as a dancemaker and artistic researcher, Love is able to show the ways in which his method samples strategies, voices and traditions from the cultural past to imagine and work towards futuristic locations of liberation and possibility. Ultimately, Mix(tap)ing allows Love to layer intellectual concepts and theatrical conventions in order to design an approach to rhythm tap dance improvisation and choreography that is expressly Black and queer. This article is, in itself, a demonstration of Love’s method as it joins written analysis with a performed lecture script to evidence how Love has previously presented one of his Mix(tap)es.
Select Projects and Press
Tiona Nekkia McClodden’s “The Trace of an Implied Presence” (2022)
Tiona Nekkia McClodden’s “The Trace of an Implied Presence” (2022)
"(RHY)PISTEMOLOGY!" at Fusebox Festival (Apr ’23)
"(RHY)PISTEMOLOGY!" at Fusebox Festival (Apr ’23)
Untapped Journal — "How Michael J. Love’s Subversive Tap Dancing Steps Forward" (Feb ‘23)
Untapped Journal — "How Michael J. Love’s Subversive Tap Dancing Steps Forward" (Feb ‘23)
Mixing moves from tap, vogue, ballroom, and more, the dancer confronts a genre with a complicated legacy.
Dance Magazine — "Accepting the Unexpected: How Dancers Can Cope with Ongoing Pandemic Disruptions" (July ‘22)
Dance Magazine — "Accepting the Unexpected: How Dancers Can Cope with Ongoing Pandemic Disruptions" (July ‘22)
We talked to three dance pros about how they’re coping with pandemic uncertainty, and asked a dance psychologist for her best tips.
Arts and Culture Texas — "An Archive of Black Joy: Tito’s Prize winners Michael J. Love and Ariel René Jackson at Big Medium" (Oct ‘21)
Arts and Culture Texas — "An Archive of Black Joy: Tito’s Prize winners Michael J. Love and Ariel René Jackson at Big Medium" (Oct ‘21)
Sightlines — "Ariel René Jackson and Michael J. Love imagine a Black futurist family archive" (Dec ‘21)
Sightlines — "Ariel René Jackson and Michael J. Love imagine a Black futurist family archive" (Dec ‘21)
In their Tito's Prize exhibition, Ariel Rene Jackson and Michael J. Love hack a method for traversing time, and imagine new sites for planting their loved ones’ histories.
Lewis Center — "Princeton Arts Fellows for 2021-23 Announced"
Lewis Center — "Princeton Arts Fellows for 2021-23 Announced"
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