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  • PROFILE
    • Artistic Director
    • Collaborators
    • Performers
    • Awards + Recognition
  • PROJECTS
    • The AFROFUTURISM Series >
      • Drexciya Redux: An Afrofuturist Cabaret
      • Holding Public Space: Recounting the Workrate of Black Women
      • Ephemera >
        • Virtual Season 2021
      • Untamed Space >
        • Weeksville Photo Series
        • Untamed Space Film
        • Wexner Center Media
      • Webbed Fugues
      • Untitled Distances
      • The Inscription Project
      • Carrefour
      • AERODROME
      • Power Source
      • Critical Discussion
    • Dapline!
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      • Dance Projects
      • Site Specific Projects
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DAPLINE!

Dapline!
“Dapline!” was created in 2015 as a collaboration between interdisciplinary artist/choreographer André M. Zachery and artist practitioner LaMont Hamilton. The project grew from a visual project by Hamilton entitled “Five on the Black Hand Side” - looking at the origins and continued practice of the ‘DAP’ or dapping; the intricate handshakes that serve as greetings usually between Black men in the United States. Developed by Black combat troops during the Vietnam War, giving ‘DAP’ was actually an acronym for “dignity and pride”. Currently, dapping is associated with urban Black youth and has been co-opted into popular culture, gang culture, and even professional sport culture through mass media marketing. The intention of this project is to show how at the root of dapping, there is a constant response of intimate understanding and connection in the face of oppression. We are looking at dapping as an intergenerational practice that is often misunderstood from the outside in, and for this performance to serve as an invitation to witness the subtle and unspoken conversations between Black men in our country. This performance seeks to be a public engagement opportunity over the ever-relevant issue of Black existence in the United States relating to masculinity and image.
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REView | NEW YORK TIMES
REView | infinite body
Review | Brooklyn Rail
NYTIMEs | Best of 2015
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DA 5 BLOODS

CBS SUNDAY MORNING FEATURE

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