TDF Stages Archive

How director Daniel Aukin keeps the dance of dysfunction moving in Fool for Love

What strikes you most about the set? The brightly colored paper everywhere, like a gift bag just exploded? The rickety old piano in the back, like Miss Kitty is going to saunter out of her saloon and sing you a tune?

“I was at once struck by how alien and yet how familiar the music was,” says the NYC-based choreographer. “It’s paradoxical, considering there were instruments we’d never even seen. But folk art spans the world, and from the Irish jig to the dances and music in Kyrgyz, it connects us.”

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“The design was a direct result of a very strong visceral response to the material,” she says. “With other projects, I tend to go through a lot more storyboarding, collaging and research — a kind of forensic process where I try to have the design reveal itself. This really came about as an endless emotional response.”

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The mostly sung-through musical features only two actors, which is demanding enough, and on top of that, the characters rarely address each other directly. Instead, they speak to the audience, telling the story of their blossoming bond via the letters they exchange.

Watching a preternaturally talented dancer rise in two artistic worlds

Meet Fight or Flight Theater , where the most powerful moments may be on a trapeze. This video features company members John Behlmann, Eileen Little, Daniel Loeser, and Richard Thieriot.