2026 Biennial Conference: Black Phoenixing: Dancing Through the Ruins
Visual and Performing Arts Conference
The 2026 CADD Conference seeks scholarship on permanence and subversiveness in Black Dance traditions, exploring how ancestral dances move through descendants, how legacies inform creative gesture, and how connections to ancestors transform dance practices.
The conference, themed “Black Phoenixing: Dancing Through the Ruins,” asks how dances of ancestors move through descendants and how legacies inform embodiment of creative gesture. It examines the “Phoenixing” of Africa in current dance practices, how to rise to the future, what remains and sustains today, and how ancestral connections transform dance conjuring. CADD is an egalitarian community of scholars and artists committed to exploring, promoting, and engaging African diaspora dance as a res
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