25th Anniversary Season: Iphigenia at Aulis
By Euripides
With San Francisco’s Dance Brigade
April 29 - May 28, 2006
“…edgy, gripping and often brilliantly atmospheric production…” – The Daily Telegraph
Just how far will a military leader go to save face and secure victory? The Greek fleet assembles in the Bay of Aulis, ready to launch an attack on Troy, but the wind suddenly drops and the ships sit idle. The army blames their leader who, at risk of losing his command, panics and grabs at a solution. He will sacrifice his own daughter to the gods, in return for a favorable wind.
Euripides’ last play is one of the most caustically acute dramas ever written about the twisted psychology and murky self-serving motives of men at war. Dance Brigade, San Francisco’s groundbreaking, modern dance company—founded in 1984 by Krissy Keefer and Nina Fichter—infuses the work with powerful imagery, giving Iphigenia at Aulis a muscular energy that defines this iconoclastic, visionary troupe