
BPT Conversations Spring 2026
Humanities series at northwestern u BPT Conversations 2026 SLIPPAGE proudly presented a series of public humanities conversations that brought together six Northwestern researchers who each
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.
Researchers gather for February 2025 symposium.
SLIPPAGE is delighted to reflect on the assemblage of artists who created the February 2025 symposium. Researchers reflected on burlesque dance, footworking, majorette dance, and the long histories of Black social encounters that produce elaborate contexts for thinking with dance. On Friday February 28 and Saturday March 1, a dozen researchers gathered in sessions open to a general public to share ideas and movements. The event was once again overseen and coordinated by Dr. Webster McDonald, currently a postdoctoral affiliate in the SLIPPAGE lab. The distinguished array of speakers included Meida McNeal and E. Moncell Durden, along with Dr. Ayo Walker of Columbia College Chicago. Visual documentation of the events will be available here soon!

Humanities series at northwestern u BPT Conversations 2026 SLIPPAGE proudly presented a series of public humanities conversations that brought together six Northwestern researchers who each

April Cornell Residency SLIPPAGE Pedagogies at Cornell University SLIPPAGE director DeFrantz offered a movement workshop, class lecture, and graduate student manifesto writing workshop to colleagues

slippage director in eastern europe Movement Research/Global Process Sharing Project 2026 SLIPPAGE director DeFrantz participated in the Movement Research/Global Process Sharing project of 2026 in
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