Angenette Spalink

Angenette Spalink is an assistant professor of performance studies in the College of Performance, Visualization, & Fine Arts at Texas A&M University. Her research examines the intersections of performance, dance, and ecology, focusing on performances that implement dirt, plants, fungi, and other ecological matter.

Her book, Choreographing Dirt: Movement, Performance, and Ecology in the Anthropocene (Routledge 2024), places performance and dance studies in conversation with ecology by exploring the significance of dirt in performance. Focusing on a range of twentieth- and twenty-first-century performances that include modern dance, dance-theatre, Butoh, and everyday life, Choreographing Dirt demonstrates that the choreography of dirt makes biological, geographical, and cultural meaning,

She has also published research in Theatre Journal, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, The International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Modern Drama, Theatre Annual, and Theatre/Performance Historiography: Time, Space, Matter. She also co-edited the Performance Research issue, “On Dark Ecologies.”

Performance & ecology; interspecies performance, dance studies, physical theatre, devised performance, and choreography.