what comes after happy
what comes after happy cracks open our cultural obsession with happiness through a series of character-based dance theatre vignettes that accumulate to tell the story of a group of humans desperately seeking to be known to each other.
“It is always good to see an artist pushing at awkward, deeply felt realities, and Ms. Beller does so with a generous spirit… her choices are smart, including her fine dancers. They slide with aplomb between comic-pathetic exchanges and Ms. Beller’s full bodied, voluptuous choreography.”
While other countries give deep value to the states of sadness, anger, passion and fear, we often whitewash our everyday lives to announce to the world and ourselves that we do not covet, that we are not filled with unrest, that we do not mourn. What comes after happy asks the titular question through humor, irony, extravagant fantasy and honest confessions.
A fierce, ribald, often hilarious hybrid work that boldly fuses movement and text, the characters break through fear, humiliation and unrequited love in search of the ultimate end: happiness.
Dancers: Toni Melaas, Milvia Pacheco Salvatierra, Edward Rice, Jenna Riegel, Tim Cusack