Felicia McCarren, Professor of French at Tulane University in New Orleans, has been a fellow of the Paris Institute for Advanced Study and the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (2016-17). She is a member of the seminar in the cultural history of dance at EHESS, Paris and the international research group PARIFA (Performance, Archive and Repertory in the Francophone Atlantic).
A lively journey deep into the Paris Opera houseand its dance ecologies that interrogates popular and elite culture in French society and its still unresolved postcolonial issues. McCarren brings into dialogue challenging ideas circulating on both sides of the Atlantic and suggests the possibility of more inclusive and more ethical dance worlds. * Laure Guilbert, Former Chief Editor of Dance Books, Paris National Opera * Felicia McCarren writes a much-needed political history of the Paris Opera Ballet as a distinct regime of knowledge in Modern France. Through her sophisticated intertwining of dance history, ecofeminism, new materialism, and postcolonial theory, McCarren's timely meditation on La Source offers vital insights into choreography's hybrid ecology of practices. * No'emie Solomon, writer and curator *