A “dance-theater meditation on love and grief, set on the stairs of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.” Created by Pig Iron, this piece took place on an incredible piece of architecture designed by Mimi Lien. The show premiered in Spring of 2006, then remounted it numerous times since then. I loved creating this show and every part of process. Including every single ensemble member, past and present. At one point earlier in the run, I had counted the amount of steps I ascended per show, which turned out to be approx 1000. The World Trade Center (either tower) had approx 2000 steps. On September 11th, 2021, we had a two-show day. This was not lost on me.

Love Unpunished was a quiet, dreamy, dangerous (figuratively and literally for our bodies) piece of theater told mostly through movement. With choreography/co-direction by Headlong’s David Brick, directed by Dan Rothenberg. Rest in power Dito van Reigersberg.

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Image credit: JJ Tiziou and Johanna Austin