I am very excited to see this piece for many reasons. It has been a long time since I have been to the theatre and seen something that has affected me in any way. I long to see something that will knock me out of my own compacency in terms of what is going on in our world and force me to identify truely my opinion and feelings.

The question that often comes to me is: Within this quest to create "high art" meaning something conceptually intellectual, and intense- something impressive and makes the viewer contemplate what was presented, where is the heart? is it even a necessary part of the the equation anymore? what I know is that I most times leave the theater at best mentally engaged (if I'm lucky) but mainly I end up thinking/ feeling "But why do I even care?" I appreciate this endeavor, not only because it is timely and has the potential to reengage people on this most important subject (which many of us have tuned out because we feel so helpless and it seems so futile and it's so disheartening to see the deterioration of our government- we are in a holding pattern waiting for change to come) This project has the intellectual, conceptual elements of the abstract - but is based in something so human so real - yet through this abstraction will enable the viewer to get close to, inside of a subject a reality that is often too painful to be approach in daily life- without making it feel like "victim art". I think the movement and the subtle symbolism will be just powerful enough to draw people in to a comfortable distance so that they can experience the humanity - experience their humanity.

I think that it will honor the lives of these men and women not just in remember in who they were in the world, but in the sense that it will reconnect the viewer, to what war is really- it's not politics, or the issue of whether you believe in it or if it's right or wrong it's flesh and blood, and that is what needs to be remembered.

Fantastic rehearsal videos ( I- IV)
What about a dancer in on the conversation about costume and dance floor practicality/usefullness ?