Located on the Evanston campus of Northwestern University, SLIPPAGE: Performance | Culture | Technology has a special imperative to organize cultural events that help us all imagine how creativity and expression operate at the core of artistry, humanity, technology, and social possibilities.

SLIPPAGE produces conferences, symposia, workshops, and artist exchanges in events that mark social progress via research in performance.

Recognized globally, SLIPPAGE remains at the forefront of innovative thinking. SLIPPAGE collaborates with leading artists drawn from a wealth of creative practices: polymedia artists, choreographers, performers, theorists, historians, directors, technologists. Highlights include a ‘Best of the New” award from the Boston Globe (2005); grants for new creation from the National Performance Network for Project Development and Touring; Collaboration with the University of Texas at Dallas to develop wearable technologies for dance theater applications; and commissions from Gibney Dance (2020); fastDANCEpast, created for the Detroit Institute for the Arts (2016); reVERSE-gesture-reVIEW commissioned by the Nasher Museum in response to the work of Kara Walker (2018); re-OrientationS (2024).