Dear audience members,
Like You Mean It'ÃÂÃÂs work is entirely improvised. We work with no scores or predetermined information about the pieces we make. We consider ourselves both performers and spontaneous choreographers, crafting each work as it emerges. We invite you, fellow Fringe artists and audiences, to watch for our choice-making in the moment, to pay attention to how we call upon compositional devices, support and surprise one another, and respond to the particular challenges of improvisational performance.
Like you mean it will keep you on your toes. We dance we talk. We have a cool DJ. Sometimes we stand on our toes. Sometimes we make jokes. It's different every night. You'll probably want to come back twice. You get to mess with us. --you'll make an installation for us. We'll navigate it. You won't have to do anything embarrassing. We might embarrass ourselves. Apparently we're like an acid trip--a guy in the audience said that once. We make sense. We make no sense. We mean it.
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The cast
Noelle Chun
Role: Performer
Noelle Chun currently is a member of Like You Mean It, an improvisational trio, based in Columbus OH. Originally from Honolulu, HI, she has performed professionally in various works across the Mid-west in Michigan, Illinois, New York, Ohio, and Wisconsin. In addition to being an active performer, she also has taught in a range of academic and other educational settings such as the Ohio State University, Ohio Wesleyan University, Wittenberg University, Beloit College, and Wexner Center for the Arts. She holds a BA in both Anthropology and Theatre Arts from Beloit College in Wisconsin, and an MFA in Dance from OSU.
Adriana Durant
Role: Performer
Adriana Durant is a choreographer, performer, and teacher. She has an MFA from the Ohio State University and a BFA from Emerson College in Boston. Between degrees, Adriana taught, created, and produced dance in Chicago for 9 years. She has performed professionally as an improvisational dance artist with Mordine and Company, Bebe Miller, Amy Raymond, HiJack Dance Company, Peter Schmitz, Peter DiMuro, and Compagnie Felix Ruckert. Her choreography has been performed in Chicago, NYC, Boston, Washington DC, Columbus and Athens OH, where is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Ohio University. Adriana continues to reinvest in improvisation as a performance form as a member of Like You Mean It.
Annie Kloppenberg
Role: Performer
Annie Kloppenberg's current creative and theoretical research hinges on improvisation. She holds an MFA from the Ohio State University and a BA from Middlebury College. She is a certified yoga instructor trained at OM Yoga in NYC. Called a "choreographer of nuances" by the Boston Globe, her work has been presented in Boston and New York. In addition to making her own work, she has performed in works by Bebe Miller, Sara Pearson & Patrik Widrig, Shani Collins, Rebecca Rice, Prometheus Dance, Cathy Young, Heidi Henderson, Elisa Clark, Meghan Sprenger, Jill Anderson, Jill Jackson, and Katherine Ferrier. Annie was a member of the improvisational ensemble, Riding the Wild Ephemerid, under the direction of Penny Campbell and Michael Chorney, and is delighted to continue to investigate improvisational performance as a member of Like you Mean It.
Ed Luna
Role: Musician/DJ
Like You Mean It
Like You Mean It
Mon., Aug. 3 @ 8:30 p.m.
Tue., Aug. 4 @ 7:00 p.m.
Wed., Aug. 5 @ 5:30 p.m.
Sat., Aug. 8 @ 5:30 p.m.
Sat., Aug. 8 @ 8:30 p.m.
Venue Southern Theater
For ages 2+
Created by Chun Durant Kloppenberg Luna
From Ohio, MA, Hawaii
genres Dance, Improv
features Audience participation, Regional premiere (Minneapolis-St. Paul), Original script/choreography, Original music, First-time Minnesota Fringe Festival producer
Overall rating
User reviews
missed the mark
by Janet Gartner Follow this reviewer
Rating 1 kitty
This was a strange show. I think it would have been better if they had some kind of structure to it. It was all too random to be the least bit interesting.The only thing good was the music.
Missed the mark
by Laura McClanahan Follow this reviewer
Rating 2 kitties
Sitting with an audience of mostly dancers at 10 pm, I was excited for the possibilites and intrigued at the potential of a completely improvised show.
I liked the use of commentary, but felt the dancers resorted to comedic comments too often instead of letting deeper moments develop.
In the second act, they had props, always a mixed blessing, but didn't fully explore them or use them except in a conventional way. Although, I loved the fishnet with the apple.
The women are obviously strong dancers and have the degrees to prove it.
Maybe it was an off night.... I wanted it to be more.
A Quietly Strange World
by John Munger Follow this reviewer
Rating 3 kitties
Like all good improvisation, this work takes place within a framework. The movements, from moment to moment, may vary from night to night, but the sequence of events has been considered and “rehearsed.” This trio (with accompanying DJ) has created a quietly strange world where relationships mean everything but planning, selfishness, shared understanding of what is true or real, and even personal identity mean less than the circumstances of the immediate moment and the uncertainty of what is next. The show really divides into two parts: the “True Story” part and the “Props” part. The latter is too long and did not engage creatively enough with the many and provocative props. There is a gentle subtext throughout of ironic humor. At one point two of the dancers are doing some fairly vigorous and not entirely friendly partnering and the third goes to the mic and says “They normally do this.” In effect, this trio steps aside from reality to create an ironic counterpoint, then invites the audience to step aside as well. On the down side, too many elements were left hanging, too many were random and the pacing fell into the eternal trap of improv shows. It hit a certain level and then stayed there and stayed there and stayed there. For more discussion and detail see my Fringe dance blog at tcdailyplanet.net
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