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Consuming Blackness Diasporically is a community wiki project that explores black cultural expressive traditions in a setting of global dialogue. Connecting communities in Chicago/US, Trinidad and Brazil, the CBD project moves from mapping each unique cultural form and practice to exploring these expressive traditions in conversation with each other.
Canboulay 2004
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WMC 2009

CBD participants are called players in the spirit of African-descended forms such as capoeira, the gayelle and childhood games (Brown Girl in the Ring, Miss Mary Mack) wherein the practice of "play" becomes a means to cultivate the voice, the body, self-confidence and to cement an ethos of community.

Players share their own stories, thoughts, and opinions about these forms of practice. Thus, this wiki performs the principle of shared knowledge production as each player is expected to contribute to a collective narrative about the history/evolution of black cultural performance using "stories" (via dance, music, image, word, etc.) as the means to archive and relay this knowledge.

Capoeira in the Yard
This wiki format is an experiment in transnational performance ethnography that potentially enables:

1) a rethinking of the concept of "blackness" by stretching its meaning, use and value through debate, dialogue and performance;

2) the creation of a more transparent and open-ended exchange that fosters interaction/community dialogue;

3) the construction of a flexible holding (archiving) space that is less dependent on the parameters of time/space (i.e. as opposed to issues for making live studio work wherein renting space, scheduling logistics, and deadlines to finish creative work are often imposed);

4) experimentation with digital modes of scholarship by allowing multiple formats of documentation/analysis to live together including the following components: Text/writing (critical thought, poetic, choreographic process notes); Aural (mixes, interviews, excerpts from rehearsal process); and Visual (moving images and still clips from rehearsal/performance, original cultural contexts, places/landmarks associated with house).



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