SLIPPAGE: PERFORMANCE | CULTURE | TECHNOLOGY
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY – CHICAGOLAND PROGRAMMING
FALL 2025 EVENTS
Join SLIPPAGE for any and all of our exciting slate of co/sponsored events this spring. Join our mailing list(serv) to keep updated.
Black Social Dance: Virtual and Emphatically Live
November 6-8, 2025
Our final Mellon-sponsored symposium brings together fifteen national researchers in Black Dance who share their embodied investigations with ranging topics:
- Check Your Bias at the Door: From Queer Groove to Cis Codification
- The Ultimate Dance Party: Teenarama, WOOK-TV, and the Making of Chocolate City
- Never Knowings and Attunements: Afro//Queer Dance at the Edges of Memory
- Jamaican Dancehall and the Mobilization of Freedom in the Neoliberal/Post-Colonial Moment
- Memories of Going Out: Black Women’s Storytelling About Social Dancing
- Smoke + Mirrors: Black Queer Social Dance and Un-visibility
- Chi City Moves: Black Queer Feminist Choreographic Praxis in the Windy City
Ebonic Bodies in Motion
Highlights include screening of “Footwork Saved My Life” by ShaDawn Battle and a closing party curated by Brittany Law and featuring music by DJ Skoli and Mobeethicc and poetry and dance performances by Awthentik and Boyenski.
Julia Foulkes will lecture on “Curating Joffrey”
IF THEN Artist Lab Series
November 14, 2025
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SLIPPAGE is excited to announce its newly redesigned website. Learn more about SLIPPAGE’s 20+ year history of anti-racist, protofeminist and queer-affirming programming and the work of Northwestern professor and SLIPPAGE director Thomas F. DeFrantz across three Ivy League universities.
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for more information or to discuss potential collaborations, contact: Shireen Dickson, sdickson@northwestern.edu