Dance
Mary Fogarty
Associate Professor
EDUCATION
PhD (University of Edinburgh)AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Popular music and dance studies,cultural sociology of performance,
creative practice.
BIOGRAPHY
Mary Fogarty is Associate Professor of Dance at York University, Toronto. She has published two collections of research on dance: The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies (2022, co-edited with Imani Kai Johnson) and Movies, Moves, and Music: The Sonic World of Dance Films (2016, co-edited with Mark Evans). Mary also co-edited “Taking Taylor Seriously” with Gina Arnold for a special issue of Contemporary Music Review (2021) on Taylor Swift. Other recent research appears in the third edition of That’s The Joint! The Hip Hop Studies Reader (Forman, Neal and Bradley, eds., 2023), Hip-Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production (Campbell and Forman, eds. 2023), We Still Here: Hip Hop North of the 49th Parallel (Marsh and Campbell, eds., 2020), and The Oxford Handbook of Dance Competition (Dodds, ed., 2019). Her previous work also appears in Continuum, The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music, Neurocase, Performance Matters, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen, and many other academic journals and books.
A long-time member of the KeepRockinYou arts collective that organized the Toronto B-Girl Movement, Mary has performed, taught, lectured, facilitated and choreographed in various countries. Her recent choreographic work, “SoundCheck,” a collaboration with La Clem, debuted in Toronto at ReGeneration (February, 2024). She has served as a judge and head judge, at international Breaking competitions, including Olympic qualifiers that will help determine who competes when Breaking debuts at the Paris Summer Olympics (in 2024). With Jason Ng, she organized an international speaker series about Breaking in the Olympics (available online), and they have co-edited a double issue of Global Hip Hop Studies based on that public research forum (forthcoming).
Fogarty is currently working on a research project about posture in performance (a preliminary publication, “The Art of Slouching: Posture in Punk,” appears in The Oxford Handbook of Punk Rock, ed. McKay and Arnold, 2021).
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