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We support advanced research in experimental performance by its collaborators, often resulting in print and digital publication.
Race, Black Social Dance and the Embodied Geographies of Freedom is SLIPPAGE’s multi-year project funded by the Mellon Foundation gathering advanced thought-in-motion around Black Social Dance practices, to create organizational scaffolding that can continue to elaborate thinking and moving in narratives of liberation.

Conferences, symposia, working groups, and research formations explore what can happen when we look beyond any mainstream of social interaction.
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Written by Thomas F. DeFranz; Black performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method.
We support advanced research in experimental performance by its collaborators, often resulting in print and digital publication.
This research output arrives from the archiving, practicing and future imagining of over 25 researchers involved in this Mellon-funded project from 2023-2025.
Contents:
Annie-B Parson and thomas f. defrantz: Introduction
• Andros Zins-Browne: Bring Your Folks
• Annie-B Parson: Dancing is Living
• Bebe Miller: This is How Dance Happens
• Eiko Otake: Letters
• Javier Stell-Fresquez: Storming With Two-Spirits
• Keith Hennessey: A History of Dancing
• Mariana Valencia: Dear Reader
• Maura Nguyen Donohue: Somewhen Else
• Mayfield Brooks: What Came before the Heartbreak
• Ogemdi Ude: Watch me
• Okwui Okpokwasili: Entangled
• thomas f. defrantz: The Future Histories of Black Dance
Afrofuturist Remains: A Speculative Rendering of Social Dance Futures v2.0, Thomas F. DeFrantz
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