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Festival of Independent Theatres TRIPPING THE LIGHT FANTASTIC

by Gretchen Elizabeth Smith


Part of the Festival of Independent Theatres
At the Bath House Cultural Center
White Rock Lake, Dallas, Texas

July 7 - July 27, 2001

Directed and choreographed by Sara Romersberger

The History of the Tango

Featuring
John Athas, Anna Brownsted, Mary-Margaret Pyeatt and Paul Womack


Tripping the Light Fantastic is a collection of four 10-minute plays held together by the theme of intimate relationships enacted through ballroom dances.

In The History of the Tango, a college professor lecturing on the origins of the dance finds himself in a demonstration with a mysterious woman who seduces him with the rhythms of the tango.

A Waltz for Four Feet explores the notion of leading, not only within the dance – performed here by two actresses - but within relationships as well.

Two men demonstrate the Fox Trot. One is all flash and no substance until the other shows him how to focus on his steps and his partner and fall into the dance ... and perhaps into love.

Strip Polka brings a polka dancing couple onto center stage in the midst of an Oktoberfest nightmare. The impulse to loosen their lederhosen - and their inhibitions - leads to a funny, sexy, unexpected exploration of polka rhythms.