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  • MELLON Higher Learning 2023-2025
        • Race, Black Dance and the Embodied Geographies of Freedom

          This multi-year research project explores Black dance practices across the United States in order to demonstrate how they help constitute African American identity and instantiate Black freedom.

        • FALL 2024 Mellon Symposium: queer social dance in atlantaExploring the intersections of Black queer identity and social dance in the context of Atlanta.
        • Fall 2023 & Winter 2024 Convenings“Dancing A Black Social” Parts I (Northwestern University) & II (Duke University) establish research frameworks and imperatives for this multi-year project.
        • WINTER 2025 Mellon Symposium: Chicagoland MovesCulture, community and continuations through the lenses of Black social dance in Chicago
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          Conferences, symposia, working groups, and research formations explore what can happen when we look beyond any mainstream of social interaction.

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        • ABSTRACT BLACK: Affective EvidentiaryChicago researchers consider Black abstraction in multiple elements of performance.
        • Afro-Feminist Performance RoutesExploration of the convergence of Dance Studies & Migration Studies
        • Black Performance TheoryInterdisciplinary colloquium and discussion group that assembles to investigate and articulate black performance theory
        • Collegium for African Diaspora DanceEgalitarian community committed to exploring, promoting, and engaging African diaspora dance
        • Configurations in MotionLive art/performance/performing arts curation, with special attention to communities of African, Caribbean, and Latin@ interests.
        • Performance & TechnologyThis academic course, a hallmark of SLIPPAGE programming since 2013, offers a workshop exploration of technologies embedded in performance: robots, media, computer interface.
        • SLIPPAGE Residency ProjectSlippage affiliates are invited to engage two-week residencies at the laboratory.
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          Written by Thomas F. DeFranz; Black performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method.

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