Runtime: 45 mins (excerpts: 5-30 mins)
6 dancers
Music & Sounds: Murcof, Moon Ate The Dark, Senking, Cab Calloway, and 1940s PSA Announcements
Premier: Martha Graham Center Studio Theater, November 2017
the blahs (plural noun): a feeling of boredom, lethargy, or general dissatisfaction (Miriam-Webster)
How to Beat The Blahs…examines how we deal with our emotions and the effects our mental weight takes on our everyday lives. How can we conquer our feelings and function through daily events? Can we indulge in our emotions without sacrificing productivity? Drawing from stress, boredom, anxiety, joy, rage, excitement, indifference, annoyance, and all the emotions in between, these feelings are manifested through movement and the social interactions between the dancers on stage. The audience is taken through the highs and lows of man’s well being as the performers work their way through different emotional states culminating in one solution in how to “beat” your blahs.