“From rum barrel drums, to jazz, to mixing vinyl records, music makers and dancers of African descent, in the Americas, have often repurposed technologies for acts of innovative self expression, subversive self definition, and practices of joy. With Poppy, I will confront the digital commodification of Black dance and the proliferation of biased algorithms by using video based motion capture to create machine learning models from expert dance performances. I will then invite participants to “play” one of these models by using its vocabulary of recognized dance gestures to trigger real-time feedback from an algorithmic musical score.”