Gumboots

June 13, Friday
6:30 p.m., SDMA Boardroom
Sponsored by SDMA’s African Arts Council (AFAC)
Free for AFAC members/$10 nonmembers/$5 students with ID

Gumboots (2001, NR) is a celebration of song and dance that tells the story of gumboot dancing. Forbidden to speak and in almost complete darkness, slave laborers in South African gold mines developed their own language by slapping their gumboots and rattling their ankle chains.