June 2-4, 8pm
Dance Up Close/East Bay presents Sympathy for a Slacker, choreographed by Oakland choreographer Andrew Merrell. Sympathy for a Slacker is a post-post-modern wild ride through self-sabotage, fear of failure, and denial via song, megaphones, glitter curtains and the Sound of Music. After the passing of his father, Merrell explained that, "I wanted to explore the ways in which my father's life, with his own slacker tendencies, has affected mine." The result is a work that takes the audience on a journey through Merrell's mind, where he finds himself trapped by the kinds of circular conversations that can delay acting on our hopes and dreams.
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Dance Up Close/East Bay presents Sympathy for a Slacker, choreographed by Oakland choreographer Andrew Merrell. Sympathy for a Slacker is a post-post-modern wild ride through self-sabotage, fear of failure, and denial via song, megaphones, glitter curtains and the Sound of Music. After the passing of his father, Merrell explained that, "I wanted to explore the ways in which my father's life, with his own slacker tendencies, has affected mine." The result is a work that takes the audience on a journey through Merrell's mind, where he finds himself trapped by the kinds of circular conversations that can delay acting on our hopes and dreams.
June 2-4, 8pm
Dance Up Close/East Bay presents Sympathy for a Slacker, choreographed by Oakland choreographer Andrew Merrell. Sympathy for a Slacker is a post-post-modern wild ride through self-sabotage, fear of failure, and denial via song, megaphones, glitter curtains and the Sound of Music. After the passing of his father, Merrell explained that, "I wanted to explore the ways in which my father's life, with his own slacker tendencies, has affected mine." The result is a work that takes the audience on a journey through Merrell's mind, where he finds himself trapped by the kinds of circular conversations that can delay acting on our hopes and dreams.
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Dance Up Close/East Bay presents Sympathy for a Slacker, choreographed by Oakland choreographer Andrew Merrell. Sympathy for a Slacker is a post-post-modern wild ride through self-sabotage, fear of failure, and denial via song, megaphones, glitter curtains and the Sound of Music. After the passing of his father, Merrell explained that, "I wanted to explore the ways in which my father's life, with his own slacker tendencies, has affected mine." The result is a work that takes the audience on a journey through Merrell's mind, where he finds himself trapped by the kinds of circular conversations that can delay acting on our hopes and dreams.
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