Hands Up DIS/UNITY: make this not us against them, choreographed by Esther Baker-Tarpaga, is a performance created during a one-week residency with artists from dance, intermedia, painting, printmaking, and sculpture at the University of Iowa. This immersive performance is in dialog with the anti-racist movement #BlackLivesMatter. Through dance, video, and live music, the performance encouraged audiences to consider the efficacy of resilience, protest, and radical tenderness as strategies against institutional racism.

This performance was a part of the annual University of Iowa Dance Gala.