August 27th @ 7pm | August 28th @ 7pm - SLAC Chapel Theatre 168 West 500 North, SLC
September 10th @ 8 pm | September 11th @ 8 pm - The Sugar Space 616 E. Wilmington Avenue
YOGA CONFIDENTIAL
a Rat Bastard's Inside Guide to Yoga & Surrounding Regions
By Stephen Brown
Director Winnie Wood
COMPANY Daniel Beecher, Tracie Merrill and Stephen Brown
City Weekly-Theatre Review: Yoga Confidential
An irreverent tale about a yoga teacher who loses faith, YOGA CONFIDENTIAL is a four-star guide to the sights, smells and stretches of the American yoga scene. Funny, fast-paced and enjoyed both by yoga practitioners and yoga avoiders, the show contains adult language.
YOGA CONFIDENTIAL has been created by SB Dance, maker of YOGA THE MUSICAL and a spectrum of theater and dance events. City Weekly recently celebrated SB Dance as one of Utah's alternative pioneers, a distinction shared with a handful of misfits and nonconformists from Bruce Bastian to SATURDAY'S VOYEUR.
CREATOR STEPHEN BROWN
Stephen began his training at high school dances. He was too terrified to move or talk, so he would lean against a wall and act hep. Rewarded by this posing technique, he slid into professional ranks, performing with diverse modern dance companies in New York and the West including Mark Morris Dance Group, Repertory Dance Theatre and Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. While in New York, Stephen graduated from Columbia University, Summa Cum Laude. At Columbia, he studied molecular genetics underprofessor Marty Chalfie who was hot on the trail of research that would lead to a Nobel prize 17 years later.
In 1997, Stephen formed SB Dance, a nonprofit and tenant at Salt Lake County's Rose Wagner Center. At SB Dance, Stephen has created over 15 evenings of diverse work--from pure dance to dance/theater to musicals to straight theater—and received generous support from public programs, foundations, corporations and many individuals. As a director, his guiding philosophy goes like this: hire really good people, exhaust them with half-bent ideas and they'll eventually do great work just to get you out of their hair.
Stephen has received a couple of awards. City Weekly recently knighted him a pioneer of the Utah alternative scene. He is married, has two daughters and lots of family here in Salt Lake. If you're at one of his shows and sitting next to an older woman who keeps saying "Oh God", that's his mom.
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YOGA CONFIDENTIAL was made possible by:
Salt Lake County's Zoo, Arts and Parks Program
B.W. Bastian Foundation
George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation
Frederick Q. Lawson Foundation
Utah Arts Council
Salt Lake City Arts Council
Xmission
& numerous individuals
