Recent Events:

September 26, 2020 11 AM EST | Curated highlights from the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance February 2020 conference, Fluid Black::Dance Back. CADD Executive Board member Carl Paris moderates presentations that consider black dance/cultural futures where tradition, fluidity, and inter-relationality are mutually inclusive.  These ideas are illustrated by Imani Ma'at AnkhmenRa Amen sharing and discussing her holistic and culturally responsive teaching methodologies for University of Michigan’s first West African dance class; excerpts from tap dance artist-scholar Michael J. Love’s  "#SampledMixedAndRemixed" series of real-time experiments with genre, liveness, mediation, and temporality; and Woodshed Dance’s collective platforms for black bodies in motion.

October 17, 2020 11 AM EST | “Connectivity”: Always provoking foundational Black Dance scholar Dr. Katrina Hazzard-Donald discusses her current research projects and their relationships to black agency and the surreality of 2020, with an extended audience Q&A. Woodshed Dance guides an embodied invocation.

November 7, 2020 11 AM EST | Marcea Daiter shows excerpts from her interviews with Talley Beatty about the political imagery in his choreography;  Dr. John Perpener contextualizes the work of Beatty and other contemporary Black Dance artists as he charts throughlines of Black dance as political action across the Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights, Black Power, Women's, and, Black Lives Matter Movements. Woodshed Dance guides an embodied invocation.

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The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance was conceptualized by its founding members and first convened in April 2012 as the African Diaspora Dance Research Group at Duke University. ​​

Founding Executive Board:

Thomas F. DeFrantz
Takiyah Nur Amin
Raquel Monroe

Andrea E. Woods Valdés
Makeda Thomas
C. Kemal Nance

Jasmine Johnson
John Perpener
Carl Paris

Ava LaVonne Vinesett
Shireen Dickson
​Nadine George Graves