Mark Franko, Professor of Dance and Performance Studies, Founding member of VPS (Visual and Performance Studies research group) is a choreographer and theorist. He has written extensively on dance and visual media (video, film, photography), and is interested in issues of dance and new media as they relate to the concept of the baroque, interdisciplinary theory and practice, and historically informed perspectives on choreography. He recently edited "Ritual and Event Interdisciplinary Perspectives" for the Routledge series "advances in theatre and performance studies."