| Dance and the political: States of exception M Franko Dance Research Journal 38 (1-2), 3-18, 2006 | 170 | 2006 |
| Repeatability, reconstruction and beyond M Franko Theatre Journal 41 (1), 56-74, 1989 | 105 | 1989 |
| Writing for the body: Notation, reconstruction, and reinvention in dance M Franko Common Knowledge 17 (2), 321-334, 2011 | 94 | 2011 |
| Visual and performance studies: A new history of interdisciplinarity CM Soussloff, M Franko Social Text 20 (4), 29-46, 2002 | 41 | 2002 |
| Given movement: Dance and the event M Franko Ritual and event, 135-147, 2006 | 39 | 2006 |
| Actualizing absence: the pastness of performance M Franko, A Richards Acting on the Past: historical performance across the disciplines, 1-9, 2000 | 35 | 2000 |
| Majestic Drag: Monarchical Performativity and the King's Body Theatrical M Franko TDR/The Drama Review 47 (2), 71-87, 2003 | 32 | 2003 |
| Archaeological choreographic practices: Foucault and Forsythe M Franko History of the Human Sciences 24 (4), 97-112, 2011 | 30 | 2011 |
| Danzar el modernismo/Actuar la política M Franko Miño y Dávila, 2019 | 25 | 2019 |
| History/theory–criticism/practice M Franko, A Nicifero Choreographing Discourses, 29-53, 2018 | 24 | 2018 |
| Nation, class, and ethnicities in modern dance of the 1930s M Franko Theatre Journal 49 (4), 475-491, 1997 | 23 | 1997 |
| Double bodies: androgyny and power in the performances of Louis XIV M Franko TDR (1988-) 38 (4), 71-82, 1994 | 23 | 1994 |
| Dance/Agency/History: Randy Martin's Marxian Ethnography M Franko Dance Research Journal 48 (3), 33-44, 2016 | 12 | 2016 |
| The Ready-Made as Movement: Cunningham, Duchamp, and Nam June Paik’s two Merces M Franko, A Nicifero Choreographing Discourses, 130-140, 2018 | 11 | 2018 |
| Five theses on laughter after all M Franko Moving Words, 52-69, 2005 | 11 | 2005 |
| The dancing gaze across cultures: kazuo ohno’s admiring la argentina M Franko, A Nicifero Choreographing Discourses, 154-173, 2018 | 10 | 2018 |
| Fragment of the Sovereign as Hermaphrodite: Time, History, and the Exception in Le Ballet de Madame M Franko Dance Research 25 (2), 119-133, 2007 | 10 | 2007 |
| Expressivism and Chance Procedure: The Future of an Emotion M Franko Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 21 (1), 142-160, 1992 | 10 | 1992 |
| The Notion of ‘Fantasmata’in Fifteenth-Century Italian Dance Treatises M Franko Dance Research Annual 17, 68-86, 1987 | 10 | 1987 |
| The Conduct of Contemplation and the Gestural Ethics of Interpretation in Walter Benjamin’s" Epistemo-Critical Prologue" M Franko Performance Philosophy 3 (1), 92-107, 2017 | 8 | 2017 |
