Serious Fun
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serious fun is an unsmiling contemporary dancer’s search for joy, inside and outside the studio. Can the earnestness of dance unfold the many layers of beauty and suffering hidden inside seemingly shallow jokes? What lessons does the jester have to teach us about hope in a hostile late-capitalocene world?
Stand-up comedy–infused storytelling provides an interactive performative container in which performer and director Breeanne Saxton uses personal anecdotes to support a larger inquiry into failure, burnout, breakdown, crisis, collapse, confusion, loss, and liberation. Relatable content. Using the spiritual wisdom of clowns, comics, and mischief-makers, serious fun makes a loving parody of the precariousness of contemporary living.


