This dance starts by looking inward into the body and its internal structures – the nerves, the organs, the fluids, the bones – and uses those structures as a framework for creating the multi-layered components of performance, as if it was all one big collection of nerves and guts and thoughts and feelings.

The Craft of the Father is about how I negotiate this thing called dance, and the ways in which it challenges language, control, balance and certainty. It’s about the desperation and near impossibility of making dances in New York City. It’s about wanting and needing more, and not always knowing how. It’s about the unruliness of sensory experience, in all its destructive and transformative power, and how that experience underpins the ways in which we move about the world. It is pre and post language, and it wants your children to understand.

Credits

Created by Levi Gonzalez
Performed by: Levi Gonzalez, Kayvon Pourazar, and Eleanor Smith
Music/Sound: Tatyana Tenenbaum
Dramaturgy: Susan Mar Landau
Lighting Design: Natalie Robin

Photography Credit: Brian Rogers

Production History

Premiere: The Chocolate Factory Theater, NYC | April 23, 2014