Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group April 2, 2011

Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group presents a Chicago premiere. 'The Good Dance - dakar/brooklyn' is the result of American choreographer Reggie Wilson's multi-year collaboration with Congolese choreographer Andreya Ouamba and his company 1er Temps based in Dakar, Senegal. The full-evening work explores the influence of Central African culture on world performance forms and the metaphoric, historic, real-world parallels of the Mississippi and Congo rivers and their cultures. A native of Milwaukee, Wilson's family migrated up from the Mississippi Delta, and its history informs the work, as well as Ouamba's, who until recently called himself a Congolese refugee. The set and decor include about 360 plastic water bottles.