Friday to Sunday, February 20th to 22nd
Rubenstein Arts Center | Duke University
2020 Campus Drive, Suite 209
Durham, North Carolina, 27708 USA
Registration opens December 1, 2025
Rubenstein Arts Center | Duke University
2020 Campus Drive, Suite 209
Durham, North Carolina, 27708 USA
Registration opens December 1, 2025
The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance Conference (CADD) seeks scholarship that speaks to permanence and subversiveness in Black Dance traditions for its 2026 Conference, “Black Phoenixing: Dancing Through the Ruins.” We ask: how do the dances of our ancestors move through our descendants and how do our legacies inform the way we embody creative gesture? How do we recognize the “Phoenixing” of Africa in our current dance practices? How do we rise to the future? What remains today, and what sustains us? How does our connection to our ancestors transform the way we conjure dance?
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The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance (CADD) is an egalitarian community of scholars and artists committed to exploring, promoting, and engaging African diaspora dance as a resource and method of aesthetic identity. Through conferences, roundtables, publications and public events, we facilitate interdisciplinary inquiry that captures the variety of topics, approaches, and methods that might constitute Black Dance Studies.