Creative Capital

Description

GIMP: 1. a ribbon like, braided fabric 2. fighting spirit; vigor 3. a lame person 4. slang; a halting, lame walk 5. to turn, vacillate, tremble ecstatically

GIMP is a dance work and advocacy project involving both disabled and non-disabled performers. It aspires to make art that shatters preconceptions and broadens understanding. GIMP seeks to redefine true virtuosity. It is about beauty-not the photo-shopped, airbrushed kind, but a more unexpected one. GIMP‘s unique palette of limbs represents a collision of two worlds coming together that are not supposed to co-exist, examining the uncompromising ways we are often identified or defined by our physicality.

Comprised of an evening-length dance concert, workshops on disability issues, and outreach to healthcare workers and educational institutions, GIMP can be performed at traditional and nontraditional venues, often in conjunction with residencies for health professionals, local dance and disability communities and educators.