Zoe is a modern dance instructor
/ hippie-of-all-trades who finds her mission in a vision: bring the spirit
of the earth-goddess to the people through a swing dancing performance.
She manages to assemble a group who try their best to understand her without
ripping out each other's throats. 
What
she ends up with is a collection of Mormons, security guards, bad stand-up
comics, and an Eminem-wannabe named Trevor.
This motley crew must navigate a world filled with crazy hippies being shaken, pregnant bartenders, and sociopathic dance performance organizers. Can the troupe stay together? Can they manage to dance well enough to avoid the wrath of Gaia? Can a reasonable analogy be drawn between societal cohesiveness and potato salad? This mockumentary answers these questions and more.
Aristophanes himself said that "Mormons plus crazy hippies equals comedy" as far back as 400 B.C. So frankly, we can't see how you wouldn't find the film at least as funny as The Whole Ten Yards, which has no Mormons or crazy hippies.
| Quotes from Production |
"In a word, my character was
complacent. He knows what he thinks of the world and his
part in it...and anything that hinted at anything different was...stupid...and
wrong." "For the actual filming of the dance performance, we didn't
have the music, so [the choreographer] was standing off camera yelling
the counts at us and nice little bits of encouragement like, 'Cheesy
grins!' and stuff like that. It was great." " Matt and I used our connections to get AVID space roughly
one Sunday a week, which was excellent, but since we had to blow
off the media after every session, we had to take an extended amount
of time in creating the final product." "My character is Mike Wellington, the director of the festival
that Zoe's group is performing at. I've been to a lot of improvisational theater
festivals and so Mike is an exaggerated blend of some of the worst
qualities of the directors of those festivals. It was blast getting
to play such a self-absorbed jerk." |
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