Flowery Language

Flowery Language is a full-length evening of dance performance at Dance Mission Theater in San Francisco on Oct. 4 at 8pm, Oct. 5 at 8pm, and Oct 6 at 6pm. Flowery Language features the following pieces: 

Newts and Hoptoads, for lo these too many moons: A coming to terms between dance titans.

Diane, Tamara, Joyce and Suzanne meet for coffee and get shit done: Four single white women doing the best they can, little gay boy in tow, the world is their oyster, it’s the 90s after all!

Vanessa, Maggie, James, Emma, Rupert and Helena are genteel characters who suffer from disillusionment and tragic entanglements: Everything is gorgeous and meaningless in the society of turn of the century (the previous one) Britain, in the scalding novels of E.M.Forster interpreted by the film auteur partners Merchant and Ivory. Class, race, gender and sexuality are torn apart and never put back together. Over a 100 years later, not much has changed.

Rogelio and Andrew pick up a game of tennis: Why do people have to die? To make life important.

Starring…

The oh so clever Sima Belmar

The crush worthy Sarah Genta

The remarkable Elizabeth Zepeda

The incomparable Rogelio Lopez

The magnificent Tara McArthur

The worst Andrew Merrell

The brilliant Mo Miner

The great Juliana Monin

The wonderful Nadia Oka

The enigma Randee Paufve

The breathtaking Mechelle Tunstall

The beauty Shaunna Vella

Slack Dance is Andrew Merrell’s (he/they/she) dance project that collaborates with many Bay Area performers to put on queer works of art. Slack Dance is relentless delicious liquidity. The kind that will leave you with a cavity.

All photos by Stephen Texeira