Holiday Watch List: Here’s All the Best Seasonal TV to Cling to Like a Security Blanket
DECEMBER 22, 2017 | LAURA BECK AT THE VILLAGE VOICE
I know this isn’t on TV and it’s also a short film (extended sketch?), but it’s one of the most glorious pieces of joyous weirdness that steams from a screen into your eyeballs, and I’m obsessed. It’s hard to describe — a comedic snow ballet? A fart dance journey in space? A wonderfully bloated sketch about beach balls and boners? I’m not making any sense or doing it any justice, but gather round all your weirdest and most wonderful friends and watch this immediately and then watch it again because it’s a gift and ’tis the season.
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Meet the All-Girl Dance Troupe the Comedy World Is Obsessed With
DECEMBER 13, 2017 | EMILY YOSHIDA AT VULTURE
Once the team started doing live shows, Mani says, “We raised the bar really high.” Pienta sewed elaborate costumes, and they would spangle their faces with stick-on crystals and fake lashes, always preferring to err on the side of looking like they were trying too hard. “We put everything into it because we had nothing else really going on yet, but also because it made us so happy,” Medel says.
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Inside ‘Snowy Bing Bongs Across the North Star Combat Zone’ with Cocoon Central Dance Team
DECEMBER 11, 2017 | BETHY SQUIRES AT SPLITSIDER
Eleanore: Through dance and also comedy. Because I thought both of these ladies were two of the funniest people I’ve met. We were all kind of in awe of each other. We were kind of like magnets toward each other from the get-go, am I right ladies?
Tallie: Oh yeah, girl!
Sunita: You are right, bitch!
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20 Comedians You Should and Will Know
NOVEMBER 14, 2017 | JESSE DAVID FOX, JAKE KROEGER, AND SAMANTHA PITCHEL FOR SPLITSIDER
The exuberance of Cocoon Central Dance Team is undeniable. Sunita Mani, Eleanore Pienta, and Tallie Medel choreograph and perform dance routines that are as fun as they are meticulously detailed in concept, movement, and execution. The pieces tend to be abstract character studies, with the women inhabiting a world free of words. Since the early aughts, CCDT has been performing everywhere from MOMA PS1 to Caroline’s on Broadway, while each of its members have been developing individually as actors, most prominently Mani’s role on Glow). The team’s first film, Snowy Bing Bongs, premiered at BAM CinemaFest this summer.
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How Cocoon Central Dance Team Made Dancing With Their Besties An Art
JULY 24, 2017 | Priscilla Frank at Huffington post
"Sunita Mani, Tallie Medel and Eleanore Pienta make up the dance-comedy trio of your wildest dreams."
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On the Verge: Cocoon Central Dance Team
AUG 23, 2017 | SAM CORBIN AT SPLITSIDER
"Physical comedy might seem antiquated to the laugh-seeking audiences of today, a rare form of humor committed to memory with the bygone greats known for having mastered it: The Marx Brothers, Lucille Ball, Buster Keaton. These remain our archetypal references for physical comedy, and no one seems particularly interested in updating them. That is save for one New York-based comedy trio: Cocoon Central Dance Team."
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Why the ‘Swiss Army Man’ Directors Backed the Psychedelic Comedy-Musical ‘Snowy Bing Bongs’
JUNE 19, 2017 | CHRIS O'FALT AND GRAHAM WINFREY AT INDIEWIRE
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Cocoon Central Dance Team Romps Through an Absurdist Laugh Riot
MAY 20, 2015 | GILI MALINSKY FOR THE VILLAGE VOICE
"They end the show on a high note, with a very bad karaoke rendition of Robyn’s “Show Me Love.” The audience delights in their silliness. It’s hard to follow exactly what’s happening at times, but what’s clear is we’re all in on the joke. The women are constantly winking at us and laughing at themselves. That’s really their language, one we all speak.
“It did feel like a language thing,” says Pienta of the chemistry between them. “Like we spoke each other’s language. I was like, ‘Oh my God, you’re a weirdo, too!’ ”
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“Cocoon Central Dance Team is a rare and wonderful thing, which is a group that is so unique that it cannot be confused with any other act, but also so entertaining and delightful that it brightens any show. They are so talented, so original, and unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. Watching them makes me want to be part of the group, in that nervous-palm-sweaty way of wanting to befriend the cool kids in high school who appear to be doing exactly whatever the fuck they want and loving it.”
“In a world of web series about messy buns and quirky dating experiences, Cocoon is a shocking ray of unfiltered joy and true showwomanship. They are hip without being oppressive and old school without being cheeky. They are my guardian angels.”
“The first time I saw CCDT, I cried. I thought, WOW, they did it again although I had never seen them before. But while watching CCDT, I was reminded that the most fun thing to do in life is silly dance with friends and here these ladies had the smarts to do that very thing AND take it to the stage. BRILLIANT!”
“Cocoon Central Dance Team was on our show last night, and I gotta say, they are 3 of the most badass, talented, original performers around. Go see them as soon as you can if you want more FUN in your life. ”
“Cocoon Central Dance Team will take your ideas about dance, comedy, femininity, lycra bodysuits, and hair extensions, and spit on them. Then they’ll take that spit, cover it in feathers and glitter, and use it to choreograph some moves that are equal parts hilariously absurd, deeply moving, and boundlessly entertaining. You might not know quite what you’re looking at, but you absolutely won’t be able to forget it.”
“Cocoon is a one of kind special combination of beauty and comedy. Beautiful funny ladies doing beautiful funny dances. What that means is they’re spellbinding and entertaining to any audience. If you like theatre, you get to enjoy dance. If you like comedy and surprises you’ll get that too. I’ve never seen anything quite like a live Cocoon show. Their act alone is like watching a variety show. You’re on the edge of your seat unsure of what will come next. Unlike a stand up comedian staring at you in the spotlight sweating begging for laughs, a CCDT show allows you to sit back enjoy the show and laugh whenever you damn well please (which is often.) ”