LAB ARTIST 2022

Frederick “Fabulous Freddie ” Leroy is a Voguer/Bboy in the community. He has been dancing for 12+ years, starting with breaking in high school. Throughout his career, Freddie has learned to grow and adapt with who he is as a dancemaker, experimenting with femininity and masculinity in the artist’s own lexicon of movement.

Freddie’s dance journey is a self-exploration and healing practice in claiming himself whole through embodying his masculine and feminine energies as a Black Gay artist. By choosing to express himself through both Breaking and Vogue Femme movement foundations, he has opened a new space for an important conversation to happen through his body.

Coming Out & Coming Together: A Home Warming Party Performance is the capstone work emerging from Fabulous Freddie’s Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Year. Fabulous Freddie invites you to experience his embodied home-made-whole as he takes the audience into an autobiographical journey chronicling his life as a young Black Gay man coming into self-claimed greatness through his three super hero variant identities. This multi-practice and multi-media performance enlist dance, video projection, sonic soundscape narratives, and wearable art to weave a story of healing, heroism and humor into a fabulous epic tale of alchemizing surviving into thriving and shining.