Dixon Li

Dixon Li is a dancer and scholar. They are currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania where they work between performance, cinema and media studies, literature, critical race studies, feminist and queer theories, and continental philosophy. Their dissertation explores the emergence of stranded affect as an enabling psychic idiom of late 20th and early 21st century aesthetic productions that work through non normative corporealities and desires. From 2014-2016 they obtained an MA in Performance Making from Goldsmiths University and an MA in Writing in the Modern Age from Queen Mary, University of London with funding from the Marshall Scholarship. They hold a BA in English (summa cum laude) with certificates in African-American Studies and American Studies from Princeton University. They have presented and/or performed in pieces at Judson Dance Theatre (New York), Festival Danse Directe (Réveillon), The Venice Biennale (Venice), and OpenFLR (Florence), and maintain ongoing projects with collaborators in the U.S. and Europe. Additionally they are a certified Yoga Teacher and a death doula-in-training focusing on transnational and queer of color grief work.