Southeast Missouri State University senior is a busy dancer

Dance-Apalooza uses 29 dancers for duet, threesome and group dances. Senior musical theater major Andrew Kruep dances in four of those numbers. He carved out time between class, work and rehearsal to talk to SE Live about being in the show.

Chris Harris: How did you end up in four dances? That's more than any other dancer.

Andrew Kruep: I don't know. I was cast in all of them and couldn't say no 'cause I was excited. So I'm in four, which is a big chunk. And it's tiring, but it's fun.

CH: Is there any one dance you like more than the others?

AK: No. The cool thing about doing all four is that I get to be in a jazz, a tap, a hip-hop and a modern piece, so it's kind of a bit of everything.

CH: You've been in musicals, plays and dance productions at Southeast. What do you enjoy the most?

AK: I don't know. That's a hard question. I'm a musical theater major so that kind of entails acting, dancing. I like doing all three, but it's very interesting to do them all separately. In a musical theater show you're usually doing all three in one show.

CH: You graduate in May, what do you want to do from here?

AK: I'll be doing musical theater. I have a job lined up in St. Louis until October at Stages in St. Louis, and then after that, who knows? Whoever will hire me, I guess.