Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series

Through its Performing Arts Series, Bryn Mawr College will present two public performances of Baker & Tarpaga Dance Company’s "When Birds Refused to Fly," a dance theater project set to the music of Orchestre Super Volta that reflects the celebratory, postindependence fevers raging across Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1960s and 70s, in stark contrast to the painful struggle African Americans faced during their fight for civil rights in the United States. While on campus, Baker & Tarpaga Dance Company will lead master classes and participate in an interdisciplinary forum that examines the transnational politics and social movements of the 1960s and 70s.