DIS/UNITY: An Invitation, an 80-minute site-adaptive interdisciplinary performance project, will be performed at Grinnell College on Friday, September 14. The event, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Room 154 of the Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, 1108 Park Street, Grinnell. Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project is an award-winning transnational dance theatre project based in Philadelphia, PA and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. We, the Propelled Animals are an interdisciplinary artist collective centered on arts and social justice. Artists involved in this project include: Barber (Detroit), Esther Baker-Tarpaga (Philadelphia), Heidi Wiren Bartlett (Pittsburgh), and Papa Djiga (Ouagadougou). Our backgrounds range from dance, visual and performance art, to music and the written word. Our work is centered on art as social action and ritual as performance. Encouraging audiences to consider the efficacy of the body, resilience, protest, and radical tenderness as strategies to fight oppression.

This presentation is supported by the Arts Midwest Touring Fund, a program of Arts Midwest that is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional contributions from the Center for Humanities, Center for Prairie Studies, Public Events, and the Crane Group.