Name: MILL: An Immersive Performance at The Silo in Houston's Fifth Ward
Location: The Silo

MILL: An Immersive Performance at The Silo in Houston's Fifth Ward

Wild She Dances' mission is to provide opportunities for professional artists through collaboration, while ensuring fair treatment and equitable compensation as core values. Through dance, we aim to engage our community through partnerships, outreach, education, and social justice advocacy. Our artistic vision is to create work through collaborative processes that explore a tenderness for humanity and the world we live in through gestural, visceral, and explosive movement. We organize community outreach initiatives and programming that is developed with the whole person in mind utilizing social-emotional movement practices.

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Be immersed in Houston's very own 1950s rice mill as it tells the stories of five women workers--just a day on the job.

The Silo

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<h1>MILL: An Immersive Performance</h1><h2>April 29th - 1:00 &amp; 5:00pm</h2><h2>April 30th - 2:00pm</h2><h3>Artistic Director, Bethany Logan</h3><h3>Performed &amp; Created By Bethany Logan, Alisa Mittin, Amanda Monteith, Michelle Reyes, Isabella Vik</h3><p>Inspired by the performance venue, The Silo in Houston’s Fifth Ward, an abandoned Comet rice mill, <em>MILL</em> bridges the chasms of time by reliving historic moments of the 1950s that resonate complexly with present day experiences. </p><p>Audience members will arrive at The Silo for tour of the rice mill as it is run completely by women workers. Upon entering, they will receive a timecard designating the work shift they will be spectating. The performers will safely interact with the viewers, taking them to all corners of the venue where there will be scenes of laborious factory work, etiquette lessons on how a women should act at work, and having a drink at happy hour, to name a few. “MILL” will draw striking parallels between two eras, speaking to vital historic events that remain relevant today.</p><h3>Free beer generously donated by Karbach Brewery. Available at all performances for audience members, as well as nonalcohlic options. </h3><h3><strong>This performance is proudly funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance. </strong></h3><p><strong><em>Important Audience Note: </em></strong><em>Audiences will be asked to walk throughout the performance to various sites. Comfortable shoes recommended. Herbal cigarette smoke will be used in some scenes. Some subject matter is adult in nature. In the instance of rain, umbrellas are encouraged.</em></p><p></p>

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