Employing a combination of personal narratives, traditional Japanese theater, and his own poetic approach to performance, Bessie Award-winner David Neumann’s newest dance-based work, I Understand Everything Better, examines a man on his death bed, a meteorologist reporting from within a storm, and a great actor who might be performing a Kabuki play about a dying man in a great storm. With text by Sibyl Kempson, a sound score by Tei Blow, and lighting design by Christine Shallenberg and Chloe Brown.

“Mr. Neumann proves once again to be an astute, sensitive observer of the human condition in all its funny and desperate and, finally, beautiful frailty.” – The New York Times

Lighting design by Chloë Brown
Video design by Christine Shallenberg
Set design by Mimi Lien