An ongoing performance and documentary effort to represent Black women in street and club dance culture, this session highlights the choreopoem, first coined in 1975 by writer Ntozake Shange (For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf). Led by Michele Byrd-McPhee, new writing, poetry by Ursula Rucker, and music and dance of street, club and African culture come together in this show-and-tell, culminating the Ladies of Hip-Hop’s Works & Process LaunchPAD residency at the Catskill Mountain Foundation. https://www.lincolncenter.org/series/lincoln-center-presents/ladies-of-hip-hop-the-black-dancing-bodies-project
Works & Process LaunchPAD “Process as Destination” is made possible with the leadership support of John and Jody Arnhold, Stuart H. Coleman and Meryl Rosofsky, Ford Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, Stephen Kroll Reidy, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and Geraldine Stutz Trust.
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