Mellow Drama
Created by Becca Hoback
Premiere July 2025
DancEast Collective’s Artist in Residence program hosted the first phase of this creative process - Fall 2024
Photo by Ben Hoback
Mellow Drama is a burlesque-style contemporary performance that is bold, sensual, satirical, and playfully rebellious while featuring Hoback’s virtuosic choreographic style. 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. Among the devices Hoback employs to complete her storytelling are highly-stylized narration, puppetry, interactive props, beautiful costumes, and even a Judy Garland-inspired musical number. 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.
Mellow Drama consists of:
Maturation | Jubilation | Damnation
Mellow Drama Premiered at Kindling Arts Festival
Upcoming Shows
Mellow Drama Nashville
August 14, 7:30pm
August 15, 7:30pm
Darkhorse Theater
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Mellow Drama Gothenburg
August 29, 2:00pm
August 30, 9:00pm
September 4, 8:00pm
Gothenburg Fringe
Symbiont
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