The world premiere of How to Bend Down/How to Pick it Up (HTBD/HTPU) at The Shed, August 15-17. HTBD/HTPU is an immersive, community specific, multidisciplinary dance performance exploring lineages of Black Disabled imagination and alternative world building. The work utilizes an elaborate multimedia design, multiple audio descriptions, ASL, a multi vantage-point performance space, and a performance structure that can reconfigure every night based on the performers’ changing needs. Tickets are free, but you must RSVP! ASL interpretation within the performance and before and after the show, in lobby Aug 15, Aug 16, Aug 17 at The Shed How to Bend Down/How to Pick it Up is directed by Kayla Hamilton. Performers include Kahlil Daniel, Brendan Drake, Tess Dworman, Treshelle Edmond, Aleeza Garcia, Kayla Hamilton, Shanika Hewitt, JJ Omelagah, Azure D. Osborne Lee, Nicole McClam, Nessie Slyker, and Indigo Sparks. Kailyn Aaron-Lozano is Director of ASL; Kahlil Daniel is Music Director; Francisco echo Eraso and Alex Dolores Salerno are Set/Prop Designer; DJ Potts is Sound Designer. Joselia Rebekah Hughes is Writer/Researcher; Alicia Raquel is Rehearsal Director; and Tolly Tillman, Alisa Besher, and Aboti Walters, all from SignNexus, were ASL interpreters in the rehearsal process. Video collaborators include Vanessa Hernandez-Cruz, Jerron Herman, Alex Velozo, and Akhila Vimal, with video production by Jessica Ray.