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.

“Intellectually probing, politically minded, and personally revelatory.”

 - Dance Magazine

Based in Washington, DC, GRIDLOCK Dance is a contemporary dance company led by Madeline Maxine Roman. Featured in Dance Magazine’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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A group of dancers in beige clothing look toward the camera wearing face masks that resemble their own smiling faces
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, I’m Madeline Maxine Roman (most people call me Max).

I’m talkative and loud. That’s partly due to being hard of hearing, but primarily because I embrace her queer, disabled, and neurodivergent identity. Featured in Dance Magazine’s 25 to Watch, I’m the founder and the Artistic Director of GRIDLOCK Dance.

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