LEWISTON —  The Seattle-based team Zoe | Juniper returns to Bates with the multimedia performance “A Crack in Everything.”

Performances take place at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 29 and 30, in Bates College’s Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St.

Combining Zoe Scofield’s disciplined physical distortion of classical technique with Juniper Shuey’s distilled visual design, “A Crack in Everything” uses “The Oresteia,” the trilogy of ancient Greek tragedies, as a lens to examine the emotional spectrum of justice and retaliation.

Two-time National Dance Project award winners, the duo constructs three-dimensional art that melds precise dance performance with evocative video and photographic techniques, juxtaposing restrained wildness and delicate fury.

Scofield studied ballet and choreography at Walnut Hill School of Arts and Boston Conservatory before joining Prometheus Dance and Bill James’ Atlas Moves Watching Dance Projects. Her work has been shown at On the Boards, the Inside/Out stage at Jacob’s Pillow, Seattle’s Bumbershoot music and arts festival, Ten Tiny Dances, The Southern Theater, ODC Theater and Velocity Theater.

Juniper Shuey is a sculptural-performance and video installation artist. His work has been featured in many exhibitions including solo shows at the Howard House, Tacoma Art Museum’s Northwest Biennial (2004 and 2006), Fashion is Art, Northwest Annual at Bellevue Art Museum, and La Mostra in Rome.

In 2005 Scofield and Shuey began their collaboration with “I am nothing without you” for On the Boards’ Northwest New Works Festival. Their partnership continued with “there aint no easy way out,” “the devil you know is better then the devil you don’t,” “sin” and “Old girl.”

Zoe | Juniper’s performance is part of the Bates Dance Festival’s 29th season of public events, taking place July 1 through Aug. 13, nearly all on the Bates College campus. All told, the festival comprises performances, discussions and lectures by more than 40 internationally recognized dancers from across the United States and abroad.

Tickets cost $24 for the general public and $12 for students and seniors, and are available at www.batestickets.com. Reservations can also be made by phone by calling 786-6161 between 1 and 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Learn more: www.batesdancefestival.org/EventNotes/ZoeJuniper11.php