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Dad's Garage to Offer Four Free Summer Shows at High Museum

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Ever wanted a free private improv show? Come catch the Dad's crew at Sifly Piazza at the Woodruff Arts Center this June for two nights of intimate performances.

We're not quite sure why, but the fine folks at the High Museum of Art have asked us schmucks at Dad's Garage to perform as part of their "Los Trompos" installation in Sifly Piazza. This installation, by designers-in-residence Héctor Esrawe and Ignacio Cadena, activates the public space around the High Museum with interactive sculptures. More than 30 larger-than-life, colorful spinning tops have been installed in the piazza, and viewers can interact with them, relax inside, or simply feel like a kid at play with the installation. To draw more visitors to this public exhibition, The High Museum has wrangled in several respectable arts organizations, as well as Dad's Garage, for a series of public performances. Improvisers from Dad's will do Friday evening performances on June 5 and 19.

Using the tops as individual performance spaces, sets of improvisers will be stationed around the piazza, each playing a different improv game. Audience members will be able to get uncomfortably up close and personal with the performers, thus creating a series of "private performances" around the Los Trompos installation. The improvisers will be playing some of the most popular games from the Dad's Garage stage such as "one voice interviews" (two improvisers attempting to speak as one), word-at-a-time stories, and other weirdness. We've never done anything like this before, and if it fails... well, that'll just make it even funnier.

Audience participation is vital to all improv shows, and this will be your chance to get all up in our grills as we perform. We'll be asking for suggestions, shamelessly seeking laughs, and we might even rope a couple civilians into our performances. See you there!

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