"Hoptown: Playground Dandelions" is an adjusted re-staging of "Hoptown" (2023) on dancers at VCU. As described by Abadoo, “Hoptown” is an immersive dance performance that envelops witnesses in the sistering methodologies of black girls and women thriving each other over generations.

MKArts, the dance company founded by MK Abadoo, originally developed the work during residency in Abadoo’s ancestral hometown of Hopkinsville “Hoptown,” Kentucky. It is inspired by the near parallel lives of two women from “Hoptown”: her mother, Regina Bowden, and Black feminist writer, bell hooks.