Kickstarter. We have an ambivalent relationship with it here at The Stranger. It provides seed money for projects we're interested in—like Jason Webley's Margaret Rucker spectacle at the Moore last weekend—but if we post about one campaign, people expect us to post about all the campaigns. And we could fill out a whole other blog with the number of Kickstarters (or Indiegogo or GoFundMe or other crowd-sourcing campaign) people want us to write about.

But a new Kickstarter push for the Stranger Genius Award-winning dance/design duo zoe | juniper seems especially urgent. Earlier this year, they premiered their BeginAgain at On the Boards—the dominant visual element was an enormous sheet of Tyvek, meticulously hand-cut by Celeste Cooning, that took months to make and covered the entire upstage wall.

The sheet was shipped across the country for a New York performance and then, on its way back to Seattle, Scofield and Shuey say FedEx lost it.

Did you know that male African elephants, the world's largest living land animals, can grow to about 13 feet tall? That piece of Tyvek, when fully unfurled, was 25 feet tall and 45 feet wide.

"After fighting through FedEx's rigorous claim process they declared that the package is not valuable beyond the cost of the paper it took to create this handcrafted, original artwork," Scofield and Shuey wrote. "Even though the package was insured, they aren't willing to pay the full $6,000 it cost to create the intricate set and are only covering the cost of the materials." Scofield and Shuey got a check for $1,000.

To make matters worse, they've got a show coming up—they're scheduled to load in BeginAgain at the Baryshnikov Art Center in New York for the COIL Festival on Jan 9, 2015.

They got some emergency funding from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and Cooning has agreed to slam-dunk her way through another version, but that still leaves zoe | juniper in the hole for about $3,500.

Hence, Kickstarter.