Event Title:

Organization:

  Performing Arts

  San Francisco

Start Date:

  6/28/2013

End Date:

  6/29/2013

Start Time:

  8:00 PM

End Time:

  9:30 PM

Event Info: 

  June 28-29, 8pm to 9:30pm both days

An evening-length dance theatre piece exploring secret cravings confessed hungers, and the desperate acts we perform in an effort to feel satiated. Employing dark comedy, "Minced Meat" is a layered showcase of juxtaposed ideas, where the hilarious and macabre meet to wine and dine. Throughout the work performers explore fetishes and fantasies, exposing the secret acts people perform in an effort to fill up, all the while scrutinizing the role consumption plays when we feel less than adequate. "Perhaps we consume to feel more real. What we take in, identify with, and own represent us, and without it, we fear we just might disappear," notes Ashley Trottier, who co-choreographs the piece with Jochelle Perena. "As we ravenously strive to do more, have more and be more, we have less time to wonder if we will ever be satisfied. Do these things really make us who we are?"

During this surreal dinner party, without real boundaries between the audience and performers, reality and reason are suspended. As they watch the non-linear story of confessions and cravings unfold around them through movement and theatre, the audience has the opportunity to relate to, and even discover their secret selves reflected in the actions of the performers. Now voyeurs of their own private thoughts, these guests are invited to peek into their own subconscious, unlocking their own consumption psychology.

Sometimes graceful, sometimes grotesque, "Minced Meat" is always absurd and comical. Cartoon-like facial expressions, coupled with ridiculous scenarios - desperate struggles over the last hot dog, for example, or dancers devouring each other, body part by body part - keep the audience chuckling and chortling. However, as the audience laughs their way out of the theater, a question lingers like a sticky residue: are we in fact what we eat?

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Location:

  CounterPULSE

Room:

Address:

  1310 Mission Street

Phone:

City:

  San Francisco

State/Province:

  CA