Black Dancing Bodies Project Ladies of Hip-Hop

The Black Dancing Bodies Project (BDB) was launched in 2018 as an initiative to uplift and celebrate Black women in street and club dance culture. BDB is an ongoing street and club dance project addressing the erasure, miscoding, and intentional exclusion of Black women’s work and voices.
Celebrating Black women in street and club dance culture; addressing the erasure and miscoding of Black women’s contributions to American dance culture; BDB shares stories of Black women in dance presented from the street to the stage.
Black Dancing Bodies Project SpeakMyMind premiered in January 2024
Presented by Works & Process at the Guggenheim. The presentation of Black Dancing Bodies is made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.