Coney Island Avenue

A stroll down Coney Island Avenue, through the neighborhoods of Turks, Pakistanis, Jews, Muslims, Italians, Sikhs, Russians—ending with everyone in their swimming suits dancing on the beach at Coney Island to a Beach Boys number. A dance theatre piece—but, then, what, among these plays, isn't? [12 actors

Vienna: Lusthaus

Vienna at the turn of the century, where the modern world was given birth, attended by Freud, Hitler, and Egon Scheile. Incorporating texts from the case studies of Freud, the letters of the imperial family, the diaries of Arthur Schnitzler, the dreams of his contemporaries, and an undertaker's manual. [11 actors

Night and Day

Two dance theatre pieces--with some text and a lot of physical performance-- that can be performed together or separately. In the first, inspired by the classic tale of Thyestes, it is all nightmare and despair and darkness. In the second, inspired by the classic tale of Daphnis and Chloe,it is all love and loveliness and light. [10-12 actors

soot and spit

The world of James Castle, who made art not to get rich, not to get famous, not to be cool, but because he needed to. We see his drawings projected on the walls of the ice house that his family gave him as a place to work. Full of songs and dances, the music of John Hartford, the shape note songs of the the Alabama Sacred Harp Singers, songs by Blind Lemon Jefferson, by the Memphis jug band, in which one of the members played an empty whiskey bottle, by the blind Louisiana guitarist Didier Hebert, by Cannon's Jug Stompers (led by Gus Cannon, whose parents were born into slavery, and whose first banjo was made from a bread-pan and a raccoon skin head). [9 actors and a chorus of a half-dozen performers with Down Syndrome

Memory Palace

A man sits at a café table, outdoors. He is dying. And, as he speaks of his loss of powers, the odd things that are happening to his eyesight, his sense of balance, the occasional painful spasm in the sole of one of his feet, his life passes before his eyes in the form of dancers and musicians and small children. And, in the end, we don't notice when he leaves the stage and life goes on without him. [8-9 actors

Requiem for the Dead

Composed entirely of fragments from the lost plays of Sophocles, Requiem resurrects random moments of ordinary, mundane, extinct daily life. As one of the characters says, "Time makes all things dark and brings them to oblivion. First you will see a crop in flower, all white; then a round mulberry that has turned red; lastly old age of Egyptian blackness takes over." [9 actors

Heaven on Earth

The world has come to an end. It lies in ruins—shrubs growing out of the bits of rubble, sheep grazing amidst tufts of grass and vines in the rocks. History has come to an end, and: life goes on. With music and dancing. [10 or 12 actors

Investigation of single-crystal ferrite thin film

Chemical vapor deposition growth of epitaxial single crystal lithium ferrite thin film

The War to End War

A triptych: Part I is the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Part II is a Dadaist vaudeville, as the Dead Soldier rises from the grave as a minstrel comedian and Wittgenstein and Brockdorff-Rantzau become vaudevillians in a variety revue seemingly hosted by Kurt Schwitters, the German artist who created word poetry. Part III is a poker game at Los Alamos. [7 actors