Join us on Zoom for an Artist Talk with us, the members of the Propelled Animals collective. We were scheduled to have a 14-day residency including performances of our work TRANSMISSION with Kelly Strayhorn Theater for the 2020 edition of the newMoves Contemporary Dance Festival. Instead, due to COVID-19, we will be giving an artist talk so you can get to know us as individual artists and members of our collective. KST is planning to work with us to reschedule this engagement for the future.

TRANSMISSION is a site adaptive work centered on art as social action and ritual as performance. Through kinesthetic, sonic, visual, and aural experiences we, Propelled Animals, offer a restorative space to counter traumas inflicted by systemic injustice. We are a collective of artists, dancers, scholars, musicians, and designers, bringing communities together for performances that honor nature, foreground radical tenderness, and deliver strategies for self-empowerment. Our creative team for this project includes: Esther Baker-Tarpaga (Philadelphia), Barber (Detroit), Heidi Wiren Bartlett (Pittsburgh), Papa (Ouagadougou), Dr. Courtney Jones (Boca Raton), and Dr. Raquel Monroe (Chicago).

Our artist talk is made possible with support from The MAP Fund, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Kelly Strayhorn Theater is a Partner of the National Performance Network (NPN). This project is made possible in part by support from the NPN Artist Engagement Fund. Major contributors include the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information visit www.npnweb.org.