MADCO: Freedom

Dancing and libraries don't always go together, but MADCO and Washington University's John M. Olin Library figured out how to make it work. Choreographers Nejla Yatkin, Cecil Slaughter, Jennifer Archibald and Gina Patterson spent time in the Olin's civil rights collection, considering how citizens can use their voices to enact positive change. The quartet emerged with Freedom, MADCO's closing performance of its 40th season. The show is performed at at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday (March 31 and April 1) at the Touhill Performing Arts Center on the University of Missouri-St. Louis campus (1 University Drive at Natural Bridge Road; www.touhill.org). Tickets are $15 to $30.