I Understand Everything Better - David Neumann

David Neumannadvanced Beginner Groups I Understand Everything Better Is A Deeply Felt And Deeply Moving ( York Times ) Performance Piece, A Multi-disciplinary, Dance-based Work That Explores The Impulse To Report On Calamity, The Shimmer Of Attention To Realms Unseen, And The Evidence Of The Body As Possessing A Will To Let Go Of Living. Emerging From A Year In Which David Neumann Lost Both His Mother And Father, I Understand Everything Better Documents A Process Of Dying, And How The Altered Attentiveness Of The Dying And Those Who Care For Them Can Invite A Complex Layering Of Now And Then, Here And There, Living Room And Mountain Road. The Text Draws On Neumanns Accounts Of His Fathers Final Days As Well As Noh Theater, The Kyogen Play Boshibari, Shakespeares King Lear, Transcripts Of Live Weather Reporting (mostly During Hurricanes), And Interviews With End-of-life Caregivers, Doctors, And Meteorologists.