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Morpho Dance Fitness

Dance & Physical Theatre · Jade Daugherty & Matt Brooks · Ages 16+ · 1hr · United States of America

World Premiere

About the Project

Nominated for 2026 Fringe Award for Dance & Physical Theatre

Morpho Dance Fitness is a high energy, pop-fueled dance workout class that mutates into absurdist comedy and bodily nightmare.

The audience is welcomed into a familiar, hyper-sexualized workout environment led by Farrah, a magnetic instructor obsessed with control, vigor, and physical perfection, alongside her sycophantic assistant Francis.

What begins as an upbeat, tightly structured fitness class, complete with warm-ups, choreography breakdowns, water breaks, and affirmations, slowly destabilizes as Farrah’s body undergoes an unsettling, Kafkaesque transformation. Through escalating physical deterioration and bold, onstage costume reveals, her human form gives way to something insect-like and grotesque. 

The music keeps pumping, the smiles stay fixed, and the class pushes forward, even as the body at its center visibly devolves.

Production Team

Matt Brooks

matt brooks 

co-writer / co-performer
Jade Daugherty

jade daugherty  

creator / co-performer

* Fringe Veteran

morpho dance fitness