Organized by Kut the Rug Institute and featuring visual artists, dancers, and scholars from the Vogueing, Breakin’, Hip-Hop, and House Dance communities, Kinetic Resistance will expand and contextualize recent press coverage of Street Dancers deploying Black and gay vernacular dance practices in support of the ongoing protests, actions, and uprisings against police brutality, racial injustice, and white supremacy. Investigating how socio-political resistance is embedded in the practice of Street Dance and exploring the symbiotic relationship between Street Dance, visual culture, and surveillance, guest speakers will discuss dance as a physical, existential, collective, and spiritual form of resistance.