Friday-Sunday 2/24-26

Many are familiar with the adventures of Zorro, but few expect him to show up here in Minnesota. Zorongo Flamenco artistic director and choreographer Susana di Palma (pictured) imagines the masked crusader in our own back yard through a world premiere loosely based on her family memoir: "Zorro in the Land of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker (Moningwunakauning)." Assuming the shape-shifting form of Ojibwe trickster Nanabozho, Zorro arrives to reunite an American Indian family after the children are shipped off to missionary boarding schools. The work explores a troubling era in relatively recent history -- one in which a culture was completely threatened by assimilation and colonialism. The stellar cast of flamenco and native dancers and musicians features Spain's Antonio Granjero as Zorro/Trickster.