The Museum of Performance + Design presents
The Latin Quarter: Maclovia Ruiz and the Missing Beats
THURSDAY, MAY 2 - 8PM
Brava’s Cabaret
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In an effort to preserve and recount that missing Latin beat of San Francisco, Poet Laureate Emeritus Alejandro Murguía in collaboration with the Museum of Performance + Design is presenting The Latin Quarter: Maclovia Ruiz and the Missing Beat starring Caleb Cabrera and Claudia Deveze.
The Latin Quarter: Maclovia Ruiz and the Missing Beat is a new one-act play written by San Francisco Poet Laureate Emeritus Alejandro Murguía based on the Latino history of North Beach and the life of dancer Maclovia Ruiz. The play takes the audience on a tour through the Latino community and nightclub scene of San Francisco's North Beach district during the 1940s-1950s as it was lived by Mexican-born, North Beach-raised dancer, Maclovia Ruiz. The play was originally created as part of the Museum of Performance + Design's Archive Live series and was inspired by the personal papers of Maclovia Ruiz and her Legacy Oral History Project archived at MP+D.