Garrett Moulton: Dance partners in life too

"Have fun" is the pointed directive that Janice Garrett offers as the dancers of Garrett Moulton Productions ready for a samba across the second-floor studio one afternoon at the ODC Commons.

That hardly seems like a necessary instruction, as a few of them are already gleefully bobbing vibrant puffs of tissue-paper headdresses like mischievous Dr. Seuss creatures, as costume designer Margaret Hatcher fits a leafy green vine-covered tutu on another dancer, and composer Peter Whitehead warms up on a pennywhistle, a rainbow-colored child's xylophone and a heart-shaped banjo that looks as if it was made from a baking pan.

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