The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Theater Arts will present the premiere of The Miraculous Mixes of DJ Santa Cecilia, a new theatrical work written by Amalia Ortiz and directed by Robin LaVerne "Dragonfly" Wilson.
Set in a Los Angeles sweatshop warehouse during the height of the underground 1990s rave movement, The Miraculous Mixes of DJ Santa Cecilia imagines an alternate history in which a congregation of Indigenous immigrants encounter electronic dance music (EDM) within sacred ceremony, melding tribal tradition with industrial techno beats at the end of the millennium.
When mute immigrant Cecilia mysteriously disappears, an investigation unveils the story of her traumatic border crossing and transformation from a homeless queer outcast disowned by her family into a shamanic DJ who leads clandestine underground rituals. A chorus of undocumented sweatshop workers bears witness to her miracles and to the power of music, memory, and community.
Employing the Latin American tradition of magical realism, popularized by authors such as Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez, the play offers an entertaining snapshot of 1990s U.S. rave culture while re‑envisioning it through the lens of an undocumented queer immigrant.
The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Theater Arts will present the premiere of The Miraculous Mixes of DJ Santa Cecilia, a new theatrical work written by Amalia Ortiz and directed by Robin LaVerne "Dragonfly" Wilson.
Set in a Los Angeles sweatshop warehouse during the height of the underground 1990s rave movement, The Miraculous Mixes of DJ Santa Cecilia imagines an alternate history in which a congregation of Indigenous immigrants encounter electronic dance music (EDM) within sacred ceremony, melding tribal tradition with industrial techno beats at the end of the millennium.
When mute immigrant Cecilia mysteriously disappears, an investigation unveils the story of her traumatic border crossing and transformation from a homeless queer outcast disowned by her family into a shamanic DJ who leads clandestine underground rituals. A chorus of undocumented sweatshop workers bears witness to her miracles and to the power of music, memory, and community.
Employing the Latin American tradition of magical realism, popularized by authors such as Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez, the play offers an entertaining snapshot of 1990s U.S. rave culture while re‑envisioning it through the lens of an undocumented queer immigrant.
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