Anti-Blackness in the United has resulted in a violent policing of Black bodies and Black hair in schools, workplaces, and countless other publics and privates- including dance spaces. Instead of fighting to change from within, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar in 1984 decided to spearhead the creation of a fundamentally different and separate space, Urban Bush Women. This new kind of dance company intentionally deconstructs Western ideals of “good” bodies, a “trained” dancers, or “beautiful” movement by employing non-traditionally/non-European trained dancers and fat dancers. They undermine capitalist notions of art/author ownership by whole-sale sharing their Black and African inspired movement to multitudes in workshops and school visits. Most recently, Hair and Other Stories, exposes the violence harassment much of the company and Black and African America  continues to endure. Though, their artistic process is careful to center long-term community collaboration. They carefully weave that narrative in the context of their deeply personal relationships and histories with their own hair.