Queer Dance Freakout
An Interactive Dance Spectacle
Queer Dance Freakout (QDF) is an award-winning dance company of all queer, trans, or gender non-conforming movement based artists.
Queer Dance Freakout is an interactive choose-your-own-adventure-spectacle, inspired by the Neo-Futurists Infinite Wrench. Celebrating our 3rd season in Chicago, our company is composed of queer, trans, and/or nonbinary artists & storytellers, who perform an array of devised performance art pieces. We aim for audience booty shaking, in- your-face grooving, and openly connecting with the larger queer community. Each of our original pieces are around 1 minute in length, and the audience queues the order of these pieces from our “playlist” by verbally calling out the next piece they want to see. Queer Dance Freakout is ever changing; every piece and performance the company writes and choreographs is created from our own life experiences! No Freakout performance is the same, as we devise new work every season (and of course repeat some of our favorites). We can't wait to freakout with you!
Queer Dance Freakout has won the Audience Choice Award from the 2023 Chicago Circus & Performing Arts Festival and 2nd place for Best Dance Production and Best Dance Troupe in the Chicago Reader’s Best of Chicago 2022 competition.
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Meet the Company
A’Keisha Lee (she, her)
Company Lead
Dawn Heilung (they, them)
Company Lead
Reign Drop (they, he)
Dance Captain
Virginia Vanlieshout (they, them)
Company Member
Mash Bandouil (they, them)
Dance Captain
Moore Kelly (they, them)
Producer
Ryan Eykholt (they, he)
Company Member
Kitty Phillips (she, they)
Director, photographer, intimacy director
Grant Gorb Landau Williams (they, them)
Director
Ellis Willins (he, they)
Stage Manager
Ray Post (they, them)
Sound Lead
Bianca Thompson
Intimacy Director, Company Liason
Lane Clements (they, them)
Company Member
Patty Roache (they, them)
Company Member