Shape
Atlas Performing Arts Center
1333 H Street NE Washington
1333 H Street NE Washington
Based loosely on the biographies of African-American vaudevillians Billy and Cordelia McClain, Shape concerns the life and labors of vaudevillian fairies exploited for their historical songs and dances, used by the dominant culture and abandoned at times of great need. Shape's larger context is on the genocidal ideology which destroyed the Greenwood district otherwise known as “Black Wall Street” during the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot.
Thru - Oct 6, 2012