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Auction block- historically it’s how enslaved people were sold to plantations or slave master’s

Alive- to breath, to live, to be able to blink your eyes every morning

Beautiful- attract qualities. Blackness. Black Hair. The physical black body. (Angela Davis)

Blueprint- a layout of something. I think black culture is the blueprint for today’s pop culture

Culture- rituals that are constantly evolving. They can be traditional. Something you do or live by on a day to day

Freedom- Not being imprisoned or enslaved by something or someone. There’s a few types of freedom and different ideas. You can have freedom from something or someone. The freedom to do something you weren’t able to do before. You can also have freedom to be something you feel like you’re supposed to be.

Idealize - you think of them; represent them to other people; being perfect or better than in reality

Incarnate- embody or represent in human form

Oppression- one group of people use this power against another. Majority V.S. Minority which technically the “minority” is the majority of the people. We should be using our strength in numbers to defeat the majority

Passive aggressive- it's a tone that’s a mix of sarcasm, negative, rude message but a light and open tone of voice. People of the white perspective has master this skill of

Slavery- a point in time when enslaved Africans were forced to work, forced to have sex, forced to make babies, lack of education, forced from their homes, forced to have their entire history erased, forced to run for freedom, and many more over the course of about 400 years

Testimony- surrounding to telling your story

White gaze- how people of the white perspective views black culture either through an appreciation or appropriation lens

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Black body museum : the idea that black body or people are always the blueprint of what’s trending. Either its clothes, dances or our bodies. The exhaustion that comes with being put on this pedestal.

A darker POV is during slavery where enslaved people were being put on auction blocks. Being presented and showed off in a negative light.

Phrases :

Hereness. Alive. Aliveness. Archive. Beautiful. Raw. White Gaze. Mirror- image. “You wanna be like me so bad”. Greatness is often imitated. Oppression. Passive aggressive. “No swag”

Our features are appreciated when they’re on white people but never on us

Through the lens of others. Through the lens of ourselves.

Race is something they can consume.

Black Is Beautiful- Angela Davis

“World Sonic Inhabitation”

Everyone wants to be Black until its time to be Black

You want to be us but don’t know what it means

Afro Chic- Carrie Mae Weems

You want your hair to be like ours, you want our full lips, booty

Oppression

White people have nothing to be proud of

Dancers:

1. Serraya (80s)

2. Mari (90s)

3. Jayson (70s)

4. Ny (00s)

5. Earlisia (90s ?)

6. Ciara (70s)

7. Keana (60s)

ASK AARON FOR 3 WHITE ACTORS !

White people “The White Gaze”

Outside source of inspiration :

Ernie Barnes ( The Sugar Shack) “An Artist paints his [her] own reality”

Black social clubs /dances/parties/spaces

The Black Dancing Body- Brenda Dixon Gottschild

Sadiya Hartman

Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being- Kevin Quashie

Still Here - Bill T Jones

Sula- Toni Morrison

Afro Chic- Carrie Mae Weems

Kara Walker

Carolee Schneeman

The End of eating Everything

Renee Cox

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye/ Solange “Don’t Touch My Hair”

Grandmaster Flash

Angela Davis “Black Is Beautiful”

Black Arts Movement

Jayne Cortez- There it is

Missy Elliott- lose control

Tressie McMillan Cottom- In The Name of Beauty “Whiteness exists as a response to blackness.” Pg 44

Annie Lee

Jane Elliott- “ Perception is everything”

For The Millions- Abiodun Oyewole https://youtube.com/watch?v=xtK0WMre82k&feature=shares

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cm679w4qpOo/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Ideal Song Order :

Draft #1:

1. Biggie Smalls- Hypnotize instrumental with hook

2. Solange- F.U.B.U / Solange- Almeda

3. Missy Elliott- lose control

4. Poem ? ( Trey)

5. Sam Cooke- A Change Is Gonna Come (Reason for Sam Cooke: Bashar sang the song in church)

Draft #2:

1. Slick Rick & Doug E. Fresh- La Di Da Di

2. Beyonce ft. Andre 3000 - Party ( acapella)

3. Jay Z- Hard Knock Life

4. Notorious B.I.G- Big Poppa

5. Missy Elliott- Lose Control

6. Sam Cooke- A Change Is Gonna Come

Walking- out song:

1. Intro to Brooklyn- Fabulous ft. Jay-Z, Uncle Murda

2. Closer-

Social black clubs

1. What makes you move in a public settings ?

2. What do you hear in a black social event ? What do you see ? What happens ? Why ?

Black body

1. Why is the black body so rare ? So full ?  So different ?

2. Why do non-black people idealize black bodies ? Wanting to imitate it, Reflect it, become it, be it

3. When was “being ghetto” normalized? When did hand gestures and speaking with our hands become an everybody thing ?

4. How close is your personal lineage to Black History ?

5. What’s a negative aspect of your black experience? What’s a positive ?

6. What’s the white gaze ? When was a time you experienced it ?

7. Do you like when the spotlight is on you? Do you need it ?

8. Where/ when is it time to celebrate your blackness ?

9. What did they do/come up with / make/ invent that they didn’t steal from black people ?

10. Do you know your history ? You were there for all that shit because you caused it

11. What are black gestures? How can we make everyday “black gestures into dance ?

Notes to Self:

Play with spotlights

Research the names under “outside source”

Sequence:

Performers start on boxes in poses

Audience is coming in, invited to observe the structures the white people walking in with the crowd; during the piece we see them watch over the “social event” at the museum taking notes/ serious faces but nodding heads

A museum audio will play ( the lights slowly flicker. “the museum is now closing, Audience please take your seats in a timely fashion. Thank you for …. ) once they are sat *a hard black out will go *

Lights slow fade up with first song plays

Costuming note (maybe they begin fully dressed in the latest fashion and as the piece goes on they stripe to the flesh tone aka “the nude body” orrrr they just begin with “the nude body”)

At the end of the piece probably during Sam Cook or Missy, the white performers will take a piece of clothing and put it on. Different clothing each show. The dancers won’t know whose clothing is gonna be missing.

Song selections: Jazz ? Blues ? A DJ ?

Me and your mama- childish gambino

Nile- beyonce and Kendrick Lamar

Cranes in the sky-solange

Spoken word -Ms. Falu or that Z girl creative writing major

I’m tired- Zendaya

Ghetto Story Chapter 2- Cham ft. Alicia Keys

Mood 4 Eva- Beyonce ft Jay Z

Rule- Nas ft Amerie

Biggie Smalls- hypnotize or instrumental  with a hook

Biggie Smalls- juicy instrumental

Kingdom & Ms. Boogie- Exterra

Janet Jackson- Rhythm Nation

Busta Rhymes- Touch it instrumental

Solange- Almeda

Titles

As Free As We Can Be

The Groove of the underground

The Groove

The Underground

Dress Rehearsal Notes

Somber lights

Go over new entrance

Where is Ciara entering ?

Reason for Sam Cooke: Bashar sang the song in church!

First song notes

Ciara or keana looks around and says “We good y’all”

Everyone drops their poses naturally ( hesitant, quick, mad, start to talk to each other)

The music will go

Solange note

Ny will switch with Jayson so she’s center and not on the box . Join at the ending of Ciara/ Serraya duo. Take the sip step in a circle. Ciara/Serraya goes off. Ny’s solo starts.

Ny’s solo: what kind of dancer do you want to be ? Leggy? Sexy ? What do you want to do ?

At least 3

Don’t touch the statues

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Ebony Williams Solo Show - Phenomenal Woman

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Good and Bad Hair | School Daze | A Spike Lee Joint

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Blackness; what makes us black ?

Idolize

Idealize

Social space

The energy of being black

Embodiment of history

Black films

Black movies

Kyle Abraham, Rennie Harris, Bill T. Jones, Ernie Barnes, that piece that started with "Shake it off"

Perception: How black people perceive themselves v.s. how others perceive us .

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Camille A. Brown & Dancers | Exclusive Clip of BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play