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JabbaWockeeZ want to bring their name to life

Posted by: Stephanie De Pasquale on March 24, 2009 at 12:24PM CST

Sometimes there just isn’t room to get all the good bits of an interview into a story, so here are the extras from my conversation with JabbaWockeeZ founder Joe Larot.

As a child, he watched “Alice in Wonderland” all the time. Once he was old enough to understand and interpret literature, he read the book, which isn’t nearly as child-friendly as the animated Disney movie. However, the dance crew’s name came from “Alice” author Lewis Carroll’s sequel, “Through the Looking-Glass.”

In that book, Carroll wrote a jabberwocky, or a poem of nonsense. Larot said the dance crew would like to create a Broadway or Las Vegas show to bring Carroll's stories to life through music on the stage. They’ve worked on some elements of the show, but their method of choreography is about as haphazard as the jabberwocky appears to be.

“We usually goof around a lot. A lot of our concepts and a lot of our ideas come from us goofing around, just trying different movements, or we’ll do something and laugh about it and then really use it,” Larot said. “We’re a bunch of goofy guys and we just like to vibe off each other.”

For more information about the JabbaWockeeZ and their upcoming performance at the i wireless Center, check out our online exclusive here.

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