#InkCypher Round Three presents “Hip Hop is my Country”: Breaking on the Move between Istanbul and Berlin by Funda Oral & Danielle Schoon. They interview artists in Istanbul & Berlin to see how breaking moves between geographies & national borders. hiphopdancealmanac.com/ink-cypher-hip…

#InkCypher Round Three presents 'Afrikan Dancers as Embodied Archives: Contemporary Movements as Evolving Archives' by @Agbenoxevi_. He looks at the relationship & evolution of Afro Buck and Krump in West Africa & performance as an unorthodox archive. hiphopdancealmanac.com/ink-cypher-con…

I really enjoyed working on this paper and I learnt so much from the process, thank you.

I 💜 written responses & I am now part of a chain. My essay ‘Afrikan dancers as embodied archives’ was a response to a piece by Temitayo Ince on Krumping and this joy has just dropped by Dodzi K Aveh which is a response to my essay. The dance continues hiphopdancealmanac.com/ink-cypher-con…

#InkCypher Round Three presents: Sharing and its Limits: A Non-Anthropological Perspective on Barcelona Freestyle Dancers by Malvina Tessatore. Revisiting her fieldwork with Barcelona Street Dancers she looks at the differences in training & exchange. hiphopdancealmanac.com/ink-cypher-sha…

#InkCypher Round Three presents: Living Hip Hop in Uruguay: A Portrait of Bgirl JV China (BGIRLJV CHINA). Wendy offers an in depth portrait of the 1st old school Bgirl from Uruguay who talks about violence, social change & music in her Hip Hop journey. hiphopdancealmanac.com/ink-cypher-liv…

#InkCypher Round Three presents: Hip Hop Hair: How Hairstyles Influence Movement by Author Starla Carr. Starla looks at the politics & history of Black hair in Hip Hop dance with analysis of Les Twins, Angela Davis, Soul Train, frat parties and The Guedra. hiphopdancealmanac.com/ink-cypher-hip…

#InkCypher Round Three presents: Decipher The Cypher by Astrid Aristizábal. Astrid lingers at the poetic edge of the cypher before stepping in & responding to the many other Ink Cypherees who’ve already engaged with different notions of the cypher. hiphopdancealmanac.com/ink-cypher-dec…

#InkCypher Round Three presents An Interview with Grudge Oneski - The Realest Bboy in the UK by Iain Bleakley. We learn what it takes to meet the standards of the UK’s realest bboy - #GrudgeOneski - who lives a life devoted to the rules of breaking. hiphopdancealmanac.com/ink-cypher-an-…

#InkCypher & the Hip Hop Dance Almanac have been invited by British Library, Jisc & The National Archives to present at #DCDC23 conference. We'll be sharing our literary archival innovation & oral histories of Hip Hop dance in the UK with dozens of international archive professionals.

Congratulations Ian, great job

As Hip Hop celebrates it’s 50th birthday (#HipHop50), let’s mark this moment & shine a light onto the 55 original & exclusive writings on Hip Hop dance(s) that are available to read for free on #InkCypher. “Make some noise for the writers of Ink Cypher.” hiphopdancealmanac.com/ink-cypher

Y'all should check out InkCypher. I wrote 3 out of the 55 papers on Hip-hop dance. My papers talk about hip hop dance in Ghana from different themes and perspectives

Pleased to announce that the 3 papers I wrote for The Hip-hop Dance Almanac's Ink Cypher have been published in an in print edition for purchase here🫶🏿🫶🏿🫶🏿 ko-fi.com/s/fdbc38700f Buy to support independent journalism of black culture, links to read articles in next tweet