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The Saartjie Project presents "Deconstructing the Myth of the Booty"

DC Arts Center
Washington, DC

"The cast earnestly and confidently commands the theater, demystifying the black female body while redressing it with a tantalizing mysticism all their own."

- Washington City Paper

Catch our last performances of "Deconstructing the Myth of the Booty"!

Saartjie Baartman was a 19th-century South African woman who was taken from her homeland and crudely displayed in Europe from 1810 1815. She was given the show name "Hottentot Venus" and dressed in feathers and sheer clothing to enhance her pronounced physical features that were deemed hypersexual and exotic. Upon her death her body was dissected and publicly displayed in a museum in Paris until 1974. After much international political and social discourse over where Saartjie Baartman belonged, her remains were flown back to her homeland in May 2002 and laid to rest almost 200 years after she was taken to Europe.

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Minimum Age: 17

Kid Friendly: No

Dog Friendly: No

Non-Smoking: No

Wheelchair Accessible: No

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