The Groove of The Underground by imani jenkins https://padlet.com/imaninjenkins/o1z80fa1fw4532nj en-us 2023-01-31 21:45:22 UTC 2024-03-31 18:15:07 UTC hello@padlet.com imaninjenkins https://padlet.com/imaninjenkins/o1z80fa1fw4532nj/wish/2463725411 2023-01-31 21:48:19 UTC https://padlet.com/imaninjenkins/o1z80fa1fw4532nj/wish/2463725411 imaninjenkins https://padlet.com/imaninjenkins/o1z80fa1fw4532nj/wish/2463728085 2023-01-31 21:52:12 UTC https://padlet.com/imaninjenkins/o1z80fa1fw4532nj/wish/2463728085 imaninjenkins https://padlet.com/imaninjenkins/o1z80fa1fw4532nj/wish/2535627130 2023-03-28 20:47:59 UTC https://padlet.com/imaninjenkins/o1z80fa1fw4532nj/wish/2535627130 imaninjenkins https://padlet.com/imaninjenkins/o1z80fa1fw4532nj/wish/2535627354 2023-03-28 20:48:18 UTC https://padlet.com/imaninjenkins/o1z80fa1fw4532nj/wish/2535627354 imaninjenkins https://padlet.com/imaninjenkins/o1z80fa1fw4532nj/wish/2535630839 2023-03-28 20:52:47 UTC https://padlet.com/imaninjenkins/o1z80fa1fw4532nj/wish/2535630839 imaninjenkins https://padlet.com/imaninjenkins/o1z80fa1fw4532nj/wish/2535631223 2023-03-28 20:53:18 UTC https://padlet.com/imaninjenkins/o1z80fa1fw4532nj/wish/2535631223 imaninjenkins https://padlet.com/imaninjenkins/o1z80fa1fw4532nj/wish/2535631619 2023-03-28 20:53:55 UTC https://padlet.com/imaninjenkins/o1z80fa1fw4532nj/wish/2535631619 imaninjenkins https://padlet.com/imaninjenkins/o1z80fa1fw4532nj/wish/2535632842 2023-03-28 20:55:38 UTC https://padlet.com/imaninjenkins/o1z80fa1fw4532nj/wish/2535632842 imaninjenkins https://padlet.com/imaninjenkins/o1z80fa1fw4532nj/wish/2535633384 2023-03-28 20:56:12 UTC https://padlet.com/imaninjenkins/o1z80fa1fw4532nj/wish/2535633384 imaninjenkins https://padlet.com/imaninjenkins/o1z80fa1fw4532nj/wish/2535634419 2023-03-28 20:57:22 UTC https://padlet.com/imaninjenkins/o1z80fa1fw4532nj/wish/2535634419 imaninjenkins https://padlet.com/imaninjenkins/o1z80fa1fw4532nj/wish/2535634917 2023-03-28 20:57:59 UTC https://padlet.com/imaninjenkins/o1z80fa1fw4532nj/wish/2535634917 imaninjenkins https://padlet.com/imaninjenkins/o1z80fa1fw4532nj/wish/2535636152 2023-03-28 20:59:38 UTC https://padlet.com/imaninjenkins/o1z80fa1fw4532nj/wish/2535636152 imaninjenkins https://padlet.com/imaninjenkins/o1z80fa1fw4532nj/wish/2535636833 2023-03-28 21:00:29 UTC https://padlet.com/imaninjenkins/o1z80fa1fw4532nj/wish/2535636833 imaninjenkins https://padlet.com/imaninjenkins/o1z80fa1fw4532nj/wish/2535640529
  • 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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  • 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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