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The Lula Washington Dance Theatre - instrumental in creating the mesmerizing movements of the blue-skinned Na'vi tribe in the film Avatar - performs tonight in Olympia at the Evergreen State College.

Choreographer Lula Washington of Los Angeles developed the tribe's signature movements, and she and members of the company wore motion sensors so that their movements could be translated to animation.

Washington was inspired by peoples in Africa and by the Australian Aborigines. "They have a certain way of greeting each other," she says in a press release for the show. "They have a certain way of hunting. They're very, very thoughtful of the environment, and they're very spiritual. That helped to flesh out the kind of movements that I used."

Read Molly Gilmore's full article here.

Lula Washington Dance Theatre

Thursday, April 7, 8 p.m., $20, $15 for seniors, $10 for students, Tickets available at Rainy Day Records, the Evergreen Bookstore, the Communications Building box office, brownpapertickets.com or by phone at 360-867-6833

Experimental Theater, The Evergreen State College, 2700 Evergreen Pkwy. NW, Olympia

360-867-6651 or lulawashington.org