Nita & Zita

Penned by the pixie-punk ex-Minnesotan Lisa D’Amour, Nita & Zita re-imagines the story of immigrant sisters turned “international dancers.” Settling into the New Orleans French Quarter at the height of the Jazz Age, Nita and Zita dazzled audiences with their productions that mixed burlesque with contortionist acrobatics. They performed in lavishly ornate flapper-cum-freak show costumes that they hand-stitched and beaded themselves. D’Amour and company re-create the Nita and Zita spectacle with the help of an exceedingly flexible stable of dancers, ragtime and jazz musicians, and fantastic costumes inspired by the sisters’ actual designs. 1420 Washington Ave. S., 612-375-7622; www.walkerart.org