Dance that makes you lean forward, not sit back.

Two dancers are kneeling on the floor, one on top of the other. Each is holding up a tablet with digital eyes over their face, and they are bathed in neon green light.

ā€œIntellectually probing, politically minded, and personally revelatory.ā€

 - Dance Magazine

GRIDLOCK Dance is a North American dance company led by Madeline Maxine Roman. Featured in Dance Magazineā€™s 25 to Watch, she stages fraught yet fruitful conversations about what it means to be human in the digital age.

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Two dancers in blue jeans and blue shirts are dancing on a green turf rug

PERFORMANCES

A group of dancers smile for a mirror picture in a dance studio

CLASSES

Madeline Maxine Roman gives opening remarks to a full theater house

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COMPANY RePERTORY

A dancer reaches up overhead and then jumps, wearing a green dress inside an indoor garden
A dancer takes photos of another dancer with a cellphone during the performance
A woman in a tan suit sits onstage in a pile of newspapers, chewing one of them
A group of dancers in green boilersuits surround a cement block structure, with one of them standing one top reaching toward the sky
One dancer lifts another in a spin on a green turf rug onstage
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Madeline Maxine Roman sits on a chair in a brightly lit dance studio, with her hand on her face 
Artistic Director

Hi, Iā€™m Madeline Maxine Roman (most people call me Max).

Iā€™m talkative and loud. That's partly due to being hard of hearing, but primarily because Iā€™m an outspoken lesbian armed with a dedicated prop closet. Iā€™m also the Artistic Director of GRIDLOCK Dance, a National Dance Project Grant recipient, a Creative Capital State of the Art Prize winner, and one of Dance Magazine's 25 to Watch.

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