›Tentative Assembly (the tent piece)‹ is a sequel to Eleanor Bauer's last group piece ›A Dance for the Newest Age (the triangle piece)‹. Where laws of form preceded action in ›(the triangle piece)‹, inquisitive action precedes form in ›(the tent piece), asking not what it means to make shapes together, but what kinds of shapes emerge from tackling the meaning and experience of being together. In a moment of global unrest and political change, ›Tentative Assembly (the tent piece)‹ works with the intelligence and people-power of ten independent performing artists asking how it is possible today to utter the word  ›we‹, as well as where and when we have no other choice.

›Tentative Assembly (the tent piece)‹, brings the audience and performers together in various efforts to construct spaces within which to gather, structures that are not permanent but fragile and permeable, an expression of negotiation with changing circumstances of which they are a part. ›Tentative Assembly (the tent piece)‹ is not a definitive answer to the world's problems, but an invitation to the world's problems, harnessing the theater as a space of potential and the performance as a meeting place and time in which to passionately exercise, question, open up and develop matters of concern that can no longer be ignored.