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Tickets $15 Regular, Seniors/ Students $12 - RESERVE or PURCHASE TICKETS NOW Muddy River, an original dance theatre performance by Gitana Productions that explores iconic St. Louis racial events and issues. One dramatic dance segment in Muddy River exposes the “spectacular domination celebration” of the 1904 World’s Fair Living Displays, where African pygmy families and a thousand Filipino natives were caged and exhibited as “primitives” in makeshift ‘natural’ environments. Another depicts the 1917 East St. Louis race riots, during which white rioters burned the city and shot African American residents as they fled the flames. In one poignant scene, a mother and her four children escape the violence on a hastily built raft, only to fight the mighty Mississippi River for their lives. Other dance scenes explore the Rubik’s Cube of color-coded maps that once dictated where people of color could buy property in St. Louis; a “catwalk” of characters who have struggled throughout history to establish positive identities; pants-sagging modern day ethnic styles; and the insult of racial profiling. The performance culminates in a rainstorm-induced ritual cleansing that unites the diverse ethnic groups and exposes their original core humanity. |
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