GIMP brings audiences a visceral and emotional experience with performers whose unique attributes, physical and otherwise, are honored and utilized in highly dynamic, virtuosic and provocative performances, discussions and workshops and outreach activities.
People go to dance events to see what they cannot do themselves. Dancers are generally perceived as limitless while disabled persons as essentially unable. Bringing these two groups together, Choreographer Heidi Latsky presents a roster of dancers who embody physical virtuosity that challenges conventional notions of dance, performance and body image. The performers in GIMP have unique limbs ranging from overly agile joints, absent limbs, foreshortened limbs, crooked limbs to exceptionally overdeveloped muscles.
GIMP is about beauty, not the photo-shopped, airbrushed kind, but a harsher more unexpected one that comes from the ultimate sexiness of risk-taking and utter commitment.