Ladies of Hip-Hop

The Black Dancing Bodies Project (BDB) is an initiative to uplift and celebrate Black women in street and club dance culture; addressing the erasure and miscoding of Black women’s contributions to American dance culture. BDB preserves and shares stories of Black women in dance works presented from the stage to the street.

With this work we are reclaiming our stories, our gestures, our mannerisms, our hairstyles, our dances and our cultural norms. Our neck rolling, eye rolling, tongue popping, teeth sucking, hand clapping, and finger snapping. We will be loud, expressive, gentle and soft. We will be authentically ourselves. We will speak our minds.

Caretakers of Land/Land Acknowledgement: Munsee Lenape

Estimated Artist Fee: $25,000 plus travel and lodging