Susan Manning is an internationally recognized historian of modern dance, whose writings have been translated into German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Polish. She is the author of Ecstasy and the Demon: the Dances of Mary Wigman and Modern Dance, Negro Dance: Race in Motion; curator of Danses noires/blanche Amérique; dramaturge for Reggie Wilson’s Moses(es); and coeditor of New German Dance Studies and Futures of Dance Studies. She is the Herman and Beulah Pearce Miller Research Professor of English, Theatre, and Performance Studies at Northwestern University.