Please Feed My Animal

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Magical realism prevails in Please Feed My Animal, a dance-theater trilogy of fractured fairy tales by Jessica Fudim, DIY Resident Artist at Mama Calizo's Voice Factory, and her company, The Dance Animals. The three featured works, Cave In Cave Out, Heart String 2x4 and Sheepish, frame personally, socially and politically provocative stories with rock-n-roll, vaudeville, brazen dance spectacles and a Muppet-like sincerity.

Sea levels and hemlines rise to dangerous heights in "Cave In Cave Out", defrosting a neanderthal girl from her icy slumber. This rock theater octet features The Dance Animals' original music such as, "I Survived the Ice Age (and All I Got Was This Stupid T-Shirt)" and collides the razzle dazzle of musical theater with primitive bipedal movement.

In the duet "Heart String 2x4", a faux drag pirate and cardboard boat-rowing sailor fall in love. These unlikely bedfellows prove that love does not, and should not have to, abide by rules of gender or sea-faring laws.

Little Bo Peep tries to recover her lambs on the lam in the solo "Sheepish", winner of the 2006 Best of SF Fringe. She bounds through video landscapes of green grass, makes crank phone calls and obediently follows the audiences instructions, all the while wrestling with the question, "who are we without the ones we love, and how can they be gone when we think we see them everywhere?"

The Dance Animals are:
Dwayne Calizo, Martin A. David, Jessica Fudim, Peter Griggs, David Mairs, Christina Miglino, Deborah Pardes, Veleda Roehl

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