AUDIENCE INTERPRETATION
DK: I love it when audiences read
anything into anything. People come
up and say, “So, what was that piece
about?” “Well, what do you think it
was about?” I would much rather hear
what they have to say than what we
have to say about our own work. We
both kind of don’t like talking about
our work very much. It’s really more
interesting to us to hear how other
people interpret it. Sometimes their
thinking is right in line with what we
were thinking while we were creating
it. Other times, it’s something we never
would imagine, but we’re like, “Yeah!
That was totally what it was about!
That’s it!”
ES: And a lot of times, too, our work
just evolves, you know? We go down to
the seed, and we don’t know what that
tree is going to look like at that point,
how it’s going to turn out. I find a lot
of pleasure in sowing some seeds and
then just seeing what grows.
MEN AND INTIMACY ONSTAGE
ES: We’ve had this long history together. And we’ve always enjoyed dancing together, and people have always
commented on how we move together
as a couple, and it’s something that
I’ve always been super proud of in a
way, and [long pause] — I’m sorry, I’m
getting emotional. It’s never been anything I wanted to throw in anybody’s
face, but we’ve brought [our chemistry] into most of our shows. Except for
maybe one of our shows, we’ve always
had a male/male duet, and I’ve always
wanted it to be about the physicality ...
but there’s also something deeper than
that ...
DK: One of the pieces we did years and
years ago was a duet together. After
we performed it, this lady came up
to us and she said, “I don’t know you
guys. I don’t know if you guys ar