New volume "The Body in HipHop" to be published in September 2026!

Coming out soon! The new volume "The Body in HipHop" edited by Heidi Süß and myself that collects chapters about gender, aesthetics, epistemologies, resilience, marginalization and more in german and english language centering the body as medium of analysis and research in hip hop studies!  

What role does the body play in hip hop? How is it used in the different disciplines of the culture? What emancipatory and exclusionary potential does the body have, particularly in relation to race and gender? These and other questions are at the heart of the interdisciplinary contributions from music and dance sciences, animal studies, social pedagogy and educational research. This will stimulate a debate that has not yet been widely discussed in German-language hip hop research. Prominent voices from the international hip hop studies scene also contribute important insights to the volume.

This volume comes with chapters in german and english language by scholars such as Murray Forman, Mary Fogarty, Michael Rappe, Thomas Wilke, Jason Ng, Friederike Frost and many more.

More information and preorder: Der Körper im HipHop

Süß & Frost (Eds.) (2026): Der Körper im HipHop. Interdiszipliären Perspektiven. Beltz Juventa.

Publishing date: 24.09.2026´
270 Pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3779998920 
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3779998921

International hiphop dance symposium in Paris, 2025

In december 2025, the hiphop dance conference "Colloque international Faire connaissances : les danses hip-hop, terrains de recherche et d’invention" took place at La Villette in Paris, organised by the Centre National de Danse Pantin (CND Pantin).

 

Being part of the scientific commitee of the conference - we had prepared the conference, its open call and selection of papers since early Summer 2024 - i had the honor of giving an opening lecture as introduction for the conference. 

My lecture "Les danses hip-hop : nouveaux terrains, approches plurielles" gave an overview about academic research in hiphop studies, reflecting on terminology, questions of appropriation and representation, highlighting the african diasporic heritage of hiphop dances and, in brief, opening the conference with pointing out the diverse topics and fields of tension between academic, practical and artistic discourse. 

 

At the conference we had a variety of presentations, panels, film screenings, workshops and performances highlighting topics such as european hiphop dance history, formalization processes in Japan or China, hiphop dance education in France, promotion and funding in the UK, politics and ecosystems or social and cultural activism.

You can find out more about the conference here 

And you find the full programm here  

 

And exciting news: there will be a publication covering the diverese presentations of the conference! 

 

 

Scholarship for artistic research of Kunststiftung NRW

I am proud and beyond grateful to announce that i am holding a one-year scholarship of Kunststiftung NRW for artistic research, startig by October 2025!

My artistic research combines my hybrid perspectives as dance scholar, breaker and choreographer to observe, analyse and explore the artistic identities of urban dance choreographers - as well as my own choreographic signature. 

The project works in collaboration with the Centre National de Danse Pantin, Paris; the Institute of Dance and Movement Culture of German Sport University Cologne; the dance company LOW AIR from Lithuania and the choreographer Jonas Frey from Germany. It is enriched by collaborations with the American Arts Center Casablanca, Morocco and the tanzhaus nrw for a reserach residency.  

More infos about the research process and outcomes soon!