To the White Institution, i.e., institutions where the culture of White Supremacy predominates, the Black Body is a Dark Continent, a body that has historically inspired fear, considered ignorant and inhuman and denied the rights of other human beings. This Dark Continent had a previously fixed geographic location in Africa but is now spread across the globe, especially to the West via the institution of slavery. Unfortunately, the stigma attached to these bodies and the unacknowledged plunder of The Continent itself as a place of Darkness remains deeply ingrained in the minds and institutions of White Supremacy. This research seeks to inspire a radical shift in the thinking that supports the current system of inequity, maintains structural racism, and prevents a redefining of Blackness through Black lenses. We argue that an historic separation of Black families, and the unmitigated violence perpetrated against them, while pillaging their worth, has resulted in a profound fracture in communities and individual bodies. Our main objectives are 1) to begin healing this fracture by facilitating better connections between our peoples locally, nationally and internationally, and 2) reimagining our past, present and future through a more complex notion of Black performance; and by performance we mean not just the expressive behaviour of Black bodies on theatrical stages, but enacting imaginative futures in economic, social and scientific spheres. We will utilize tested and novel transdisciplinary, transcultural and transnational methodologies that foster dialogue; reimaging and co-creation between artists, scientists and humanist scholars. We will explore different notions of performance as actions that range from human and traditional expressive behaviour to computation, efficiency and optimization in institutional, social and digital systems. In doing this, we aim to break free of the largely White Research Industrial Complex that puts a stranglehold on scholarship, pedagogy and administration as we interrogate the artificial boundaries that restrain our ingenuity. This 2-year initiative will: 1) Convene “spaces” and explore ways of knowing that re-historize our past. 2) Collectively engage in "re-choreographing" our collective futures to heal a fractured past, reclaim our histories, and invest in ways of knowing that are animated by our multiple and collective conceptions of Blackness. 3) Disrupt the White Gaze that always wants to be catered to.