Joanna Evans
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Institution
New York University
Academic Year
2025-2027
Affiliation
Performance Studies
Project Title
After the Soft Ones: Environmental Improvisation in South Africa and the US South
Project Description
This project argues that Black improvisational practices offer unique insight into the embeddedness of race within normative conceptions of “the environment.” Analyzing contemporary performances from South Africa and the US South, it surfaces the environmentalism latent within Black improvisation, placing it in discourse with Black studies and Marxist ecology.