Dance Theatre Workshop, NYC
Directed by Jennie MaryTai Liu
'''Learning in Lower Animals (a biology sonata)' was fueled by the true stuff of science, namely experimentation … It's all so biological, and you can't quite tell where one organism begins, and the other ends. Such is the agony of family life."
- ERIKA KINETZ, THE NEW YORK TIMES
About the show
A dance/theatre work inspired by a 1968 zoological textbook on invertebrates, Beethoven’s ‘Tempest Sonata’, text messages from mum, videos of my grandma’s garden, and inchoate romance.
Performed by: Abigail Browde, Heather Christian, Felix Ciprian, Sean Donovan, Hannah Heller, Julia May Jonas, Brad Kisicki, Orion Taraban and Laura Berlin Stinger
Designed by: Heather Christian, Wendy Yang, Jay Ryan, Nadia Ries-Shen, and Courtland Premo