Collegium for African Diaspora Dance - CADD

02/24/2026

CADD 2026 Processional opening the conference through remembrance, connection, and Black joy through dancing bodies!

Black Phoenixing: Dancing Through the Ruins

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02/07/2026

It’s not too late to make your way to CADD 2026 as registration is extended to February 12th!

CADD Executive Board President invites you to join us in the spirit of movement, scholarship, and acknowledgement for this year’s biennial theme:

BLACK PHOENIXING: Dancing Through the Ruins

CADD Conference is held at the Rubenstein Arts Center from February 20-22

10/10/2025

The 2026 Biennial Conference will be held Friday, February 20th to Sunday February 22nd, 2026.

Duke University
Rubenstein Arts Center
Durham, NC

Registration Opens December 1, 2025

For hotel information and call for participation, visit:

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

10/10/2025

Submissions Due: Friday October 31

2026 Biennial Conference Theme:
“Black Phoenixing— Dancing Through the Ruins”

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?

See our call for participation at https://tinyurl.com/52cssr3e

10/01/2025