

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Black Performance Theory 2026: Conversations
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 09 Apr, 2026 at 05:30 pm – Fri, 01 May, 2026 at 04:30 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: Northwestern professors and their invitee tussle together over synergies, methodological approaches, and emerging ideas in Black thoughtAbout this EventBlack Performance Theory: Conversations Spring 2026April 9-10, 2026; April 30-May 1, 2026SLIPPAGE Lab | 1877 Campus Drive, Room 226, EvanstonThe ambition of the Black Performance Theory working group is modeled in these series of conversations with Northwestern professors and the scholars of their choice from institutions across the United States. Each pair arrives with a pressing interest surrounding Black performance to be examined live in front of audience witnesses. Join us for one or all of these events (virtual option will be available). Co-sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities and the Dance Program. .Thu, Apr 9, 2026 | 5:30–7:00 PMMelissa Blanco Borelli, Associate Professor of Theatre and Director of the Dance Program, in opening conversation with Miriam Petty, Associate Professor and Screen Cultures Director of Graduate Studies at Northwestern UniversityFri, Apr 10, 2026 | 12:30–2:00 PMBimbola Akinbola, Assistant Professor of Performance Studies, in conversation with Jessica Kenyatta Walker, Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, American Culture at the University of MichiganFri, Apr 10, 2026 | 3:00–4:30 PMDanielle Bainbridge, Assistant Professor of Theatre, in conversation with Rhaisa Williams, Assistant Professor of Theatre at Princeton UniversityThu, Apr 30, 2026 | 5:30–7:00 PMHenry Castillo, Assistant Professor of Theatre, conversation with Luis C. Rincón Alba, Assistant Professor, Art and Public Policy, NYUFri, May 1, 2026 | 12:30–2:00 PMCristal Chanelle Truscott, Associate Professor, Theatre, in conversation with Dr. Tanya L. Shields, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies for Women and Gender Studies, UNC-Chapel HillFri, May 1, 2026 | 3:00–4:30 PMThomas F. DeFrantz, Professor of Theatre, in closing conversation with Kevin E. Quashie, Professor of English, Brown University
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- **city**: Evanston
- **state**: IL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Northwestern University - SLIPPAGE Lab
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- **full address**: Northwestern University - SLIPPAGE Lab, John J. Louis Hall, Room 226, Evanston, United States

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