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.

Book Queer Dance Freakout for your next show, festival, or performance!

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

Check out our past Queer Dance Freakout pieces on our youtube channel below!