Duke’s African & African-American Studies chair Thomas F. DeFrantz gives his Response to two papers shared around the subject of the Politics of Performance. The papers were entitled Digital Research in Dance Studies: Emerging Trends in a Still-Emerging Field, from Harmony Bench, Assistant Professor of Dance, Ohio State University and “Racing” in “Place”: Dance Studies & The Academy written by Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Professor Emerita of Dance Studies, Temple University.