We strive to create an experience that is at once intimate and communal by inviting audiences into a story-world that can only be completed by their prescence, commitment, and imagination. I know I cannot place the same demands on all of my plays, and I wouldn't want to. Working on these studies, and working with Katie, helps keep me alive and filled with energy. Our work requires me to be perpetually, undeniably alert, because everything about our process and aesthetic is filled with contradictions. Success never means money.
Story never means spoken narrative arc.
Collaboration never means absolute agreement. Our process and performances require that we not only be open to the demands of our present circumstances, but have faith that our present, with all its contradictions, holds everything we need to create a performance that is immediate, theatrical, and, once the audience arrives, whole. Important Things Dah Taught Me 3. Always make your body as precise as possible. In striving for precision, the body becomes alive, filled with energy.