Greetings All !
From the joy of bringing “The Return of Lot’s Wife” to enthusiastic, sold out audiences at the Joyce Theater in NYC, the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage and the Dance Umbrella 25th Anniversary Season in London, to returning to our love of teaching creative process workshops in Edinburgh, New Orleans, and Maine, to creating a summer site specific extravaganza for the 1920’s Dartmouth Outing Club, 2003 was filled to overflowing with work, creativity, useful crises, and the seeds for three new projects:

• Return to Japan!
Much to our delight, we have been awarded a rare grant from the Asian Cultural Council to return to Japan to create site-specific projects in Kyoto and Maebashi. We will be choreographing new works with Japanese artists in Kyoto’s 100-year old Arts Center, filled with marvelous courtyards, mysterious staircases, and traditional tatami rooms. In Maebashi we hope to explore the former Emperor’s Guest House, built without a single nail, so exquisite one just needs to be available to take it all in...

• “Signal”
Falling in love with New Orleans last April has led us to creating a new project designed to immerse us there as much as possible! In partnership with the Center for Bio-Environmental Research and the Theater and Dance Department at Tulane University, “Signal”, our new site-specific/community performance project, will take the concept of bio-chemical signaling as a springboard to finding a new, symbiotic relationship between science, art, and social change. Taking place throughout a bankrupt Casino building in downtown New Orleans (replete with Disney-esque French Quarter and faux River Plantation), it celebrates historic neighborhoods in danger of being displaced by corporate interests.

• “An Oriental Guide to Unrequited Love”
The inspiration for our newest proscenium dance/theater/video duet came one November afternoon in India from a suggestion by Dr. Goher, intimate disciple of Meher Baba. Our first full length duet in 15 years (!), “An Oriental Guide to Unrequited Love” (to be created in India next fall) will recount the Indian/Middle Eastern love stories of Laila & Majnun and Shireen & Farhad, deconstructing and juxtaposing them with western tales of true love. Video and slide projections (on walls and floor) will range from Indian classic comic books to miniature paintings to abstract Islamic mosaic designs.