I was drawn to this monk’s journey because historically, there were 54 monks who had attempted this same journey and had not succeeded in making it back alive. I had this image in my mind of this monk walking through the Gobi Desert, seeing the footprints of those who had gone before him and feeling that he had been there before. Then I thought, ‘What if it was the same monk life after life after life… trying to reach this destination?’ That is how “Samsara” was born—from this idea of the wheel, this cycle of life and death and breaking free to attain this spiritual realization.
No Time for a Tango
Two men enter the stage and hang suit jackets on the backs of chairs. They begin with a short movement phrase in staccato unison—an elbow juts over the shoulder as if an arrow sticking out of a quiver, then an arm slices cross-body like a sword.
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