Please Feed My Animal: a trilogy of fractured fairy tales November 22, 2008

Magical realism prevails in Please Feed My Animal, a dance-theater trilogy of fractured fairy tales by Jessica Fudim, D.I.Y. Resident Artist at Mama Calizo's Voice Factory, and her company, The Dance Animals, Friday-Saturday, November 14-15 & 21-22, 8pm; Sunday, Nov 16, 3pm at Mama Calizo's Voice Factory, 1519 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. 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 collides the dirty razzle dazzle of rock-n-roll with primitive bipedal antics and features original Dance Animals' songs including, "I Survived the Ice Age (and All I Got Was This Stupid T-Shirt)" and the Slade-referencing "Come on Feel the Noise, Girls, Rocks & Boys". Natural selection goes on a tangent as the cool neanderthal princess begins to outlive the hot humans.

--In Heart String 2x4, a gender ambiguous pirate and cardboard boat-rowing sailor fall in love on the high seas. Described by audiences as "shamelessly playful," the duet borrows physical language from vaudeville, cartoons and silent films and bounds along to The Pointer Sisters' "Jump". Amidst their slow-motion dog paddling and salty glances, these unlikely bedfellows prove that love doesn't need 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:
Jessica Fudim (Artistic Director), Dwayne Calizo, Martin A. David, Peter Griggs, David Mairs, Christina Miglino, Deborah Pardes and Veleda Roehl.

Official Website: http://www.myspace.com/danceanimals