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Does life ever feel like a fairytale gone wrong? In this powerful dance-theater piece from her Sacral Series, brilliant solo choreographer and performer Becca Hoback uses a burlesque-style contemporary performance to reconstruct episodes from her personal fairytale. Bold, sensual, satirical, and playfully rebellious, Mellow Drama features Hoback’s singular virtuosic choreographic style alongside a heightened sense of theatricality and narrative. With overtures to old Hollywood and cabaret acts, the lively performance invites audiences into a journey through one character’s hard-earned realizations about her upbringing in conservative Christian purity culture. Hoback employs highly-stylized narration, puppetry, interactive props, beautiful costumes, and even a Judy Garland-inspired musical number to complete her storytelling. Offering catharsis in the form of hilarity, Mellow Drama invites audiences in to understand how ingrained beliefs affect the course of our lives – sometimes with unexpectedly dark consequences.

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Becca Hoback's Mellow Drama originally premiered at Kindling Arts Festival 2025: Fortunes & Fates on July 24-25, 2025.