Dr Tom Hastings is Lecturer in Dance at The Place. Tom works on contemporary performance at the intersection of politics, and theories of race and gender. He has previously taught at Roehampton University, University of East London, and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Tom completed his PhD in History of Art at University of Leeds in 2018, which focused on the status of props in the work of American choreographer Yvonne Rainer. He completed his MA Critical Theory at University of Sussex in 2014 and BA English Literature at UCL in 2010. Tom co-organised the conferences ‘Speak, Body: Art, the Reproduction of Capital and the Reproduction of Life’ and ‘Performance and Performativity: Actualities and Futures’ at University of Leeds. He regularly writes criticism for magazines including Art Monthly, Frieze, and Texte zur Kunst.