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Fri, Apr 29, 2022 5:45 PM PT
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Mud Water

Directed by My-Linh Le  |  USA  |  31 min

Myth, naturalism, and performance blend in this lively chronicle of a Bay Area dance crew preparing for a major battle in turfing, a dance style originated in Oakland. Screens with The Door of Return and Listen to the Beat of Our Images. Total runtime 76 min.
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Mud Water

Legend and reality mingle across the Bay Area landscape, as a young turf dancer searches for his shadow. The myth exerts an ever deepening hold, even as a battle with a rival dance crew approaches and his friends need him to compete. Mud Water blends folklore, naturalism, and dance in a story of friendship tested and studded through with ethereal turf performances, a dance style originated in Oakland.

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Biographies

Director My-Linh Le

My-Linh Le does not just make films about dancers, she is also a choreographer and competitive freestyle dancer with an MFA in Dance from Arizona State University, part of Playboyz Inc. Popping crew, and she has danced for an array of artists, including Sanford Biggers and Kendrick Lamar. She studied performance art and activism at UCLA before getting her law degree at UC Davis. While practicing environmental law first in San Francisco and then in Oakland, she started and developed the turf dance project, Mud Water Theatre, that inspired her film.