LOHH Dance Collective Black Dancing Bodies Project

Ladies of Hip Hop take the library by storm in our next Works & Process at Lincoln Center premiere! 📖⚡Led by Black Dancing Bodies creator, Michele Byrd-McPhee and LOHH Chairwoman LaTasha Barnes, this intersectional project filmed at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts captures the knowledge, beauty, and power of Black female street dancers.
In January 2021, at a time of isolation, Works & Process at the Guggenheim Bubble Residency housed at Bethany Arts Community provided a safe harbor for the Ladies of Hip-Hop Dance Collective to safely gather facilitating intergenerational transference that culminated in filmed performances at The Jerome Robbins Dance Division at The New York Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Made possible through a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Far too often undervalued & rarely celebrated, Black women have been holding this country down since its formation & continue to lead across industries often with less visibility, with little to no accolades. Black women have been at the center (& behind the scenes) of every movement, artistic & social. With this project we celebrate you!
Launched in 2018, this is an ongoing project connecting Black women in street dance, across generations with the ultimate goal to create dance performance works, a photo book, & a film documenting the creative process, beauty, strength, and lived experiences of us.
Danced by Michele Byrd-McPhee, Ebony Nichols, Tomoe Carr, Nadine Sylvestre, Tatiana Desardouin, Lenaya Straker, Oluwatoyin Sogunro, Reyna Nunez, Miyabi Wright, LaTasha Barnes, Deborah Conton, and filmed by Loreto Jamling.