The project aims to reflect using contemporary choreography on the construction of the hip-hop song from its most important music structure the sampling, that means taking a single part of a set of a song that already exists. In hip-hop music is sampled every kind of music, as a contemporary popular ritual, and developing after some rhythmical structures and beats to create an instrumental base where put vocals and lyrics (Rap). The title of this dance solo project is based on the track “Signifying Rapper” on the album “Smoke Some Kill” by SchoollyD (1988) and “Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present” (1990), a nonfiction book by David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello, that explores this music’s history as it intersects with historical events. The teasing, taunting, and insulting tradition within African American culture is referred to as “signifyin’”. The slang of rap, like all slang, may include words that signify others, I changed the title using “choreographing” but with the same goal to use movements to signify something else. The dance, in this case, does not follow any beat of the music, but the gestures and the dynamic flow will be show with the sound of the rhymes of the rappers. The dance “signifying” something else creating a complete different body landscape far from hip – hop culture. Whas up Whas goin on Before we start this next record I gotta put my shades on So I can feel cool Remember that law? When you had to put your shades on to feel cool? Well it’s still a law Gotta put your shades on So you can feel cool I’m gonna put my shades on So I can’t see What you aint doin And you aint doin nothin You aint doin nothin That I [incomprensibile] Well let’s get on with this [bip] anyway: from “Signifying Rapper” by SchoollyD __________ Choreography and Dance/ Jacopo Jenna Sound project/ Francesco Casciaro Technical Support/ Giulia Broggi Productio/ CANI, SpazioK_Kinkaleri with the support of Le Murate.Progetti Arte Contemporanea
