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Come Out & Play 2009 in New York
The New-And-Improved-For-2009 Diva Dutch operates like a regular schoolyard game of jump rope/fashion show/hip hop freestyle/dozens.
Start Time: Saturday June 13 at 7-9 PM 30 Days of Diva Dutch is a series of site specific performance art pieces called Diva Dutch, in which local black women, from varying parts of the African Diaspora, dress up as divas and acquire exaggeratedly long braids in styles created by local black hair braiders. Viewers are then invited to physically engage with bodies of two particular black woman by jumping rope in their braids. The New-And-Improved-For-2009 version of the game operates like a regular schoolyard game of jump rope/fashion show/hip hop freestyle/dozens. Participants are encouraged to come in a Diva costume of their own design, however no points are awarded for costume and it is not required. To play, a jumper must jump while spitting a freestyle with at least one line for every letter of the alphabet. For example: "I kick a A' for arrow, a 'B' for Bodacious, a 'C' for [jumper makes a coughing sound] cuz my style's so contagious,..." In order to win, a jumper must jump/rhyme the entire alphabet from A-Z.
The Rules "I kick a A' for arrow, a 'B' for Bodacious, a 'C' for [jumper makes a coughing sound] cuz my style's so contagious,..." In order to win, a jumper must jump/rhyme the entire alphabet from A-Z. Each player gets 2-3 turns depending on the length of the line. S/he may pickup at the letter of the alphabet where s/he left off on his/her last turn. If s/he is not able to complete the alphabet in 2-3 turns, s/he must head to the back of the line and start over from "A" on her/his next jump.
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