DF&Co Archive
Who's Hungry?
Santa Monica, 2012
collaboration with Dan Hurlin
Produced and written by Dan Froot; Designed and directed by Dan Hurlin; Music and Sound Design by Amy Denio. Created in collaboration with performers: Sheetal Gandhi, Rachael Lincoln, Darius Mannino, and Zachariah Tolchinsky. Musicians: Daniel Corral, Mike Flanagan, Amy Denio
Who's Hungry?
West Hollywood, 2008
collaboration with Dan Hurlin
"The Who’s Hungry plays have the capacity to ask provocative and profound questions, to alter our perceptions as they satisfy our cerebral and physical appetites. They turn bread or wine or breakfast into a tangible metaphor for the life that’s being lived just outside the auditorium.”
Written and choreographed by Dan Froot; Directed and designed by Dan Hurlin; Music composed by Chip Epsten; Lighting design by Chlöe Z. Brown; featuring: Dan Froot Paul Zimet Joshua Marmer; Chip Epsten (violin) Andy Ford (euphonium) Lenny DeLuxe (accordion)
Collaboration with David Dorfman (1998)
Take in performance at Harare International Arts Festival, 2008
Take in performance at Harare International Arts Festival, 2008
Take in performance at Harare International Arts Festival, 2008
“In a disarmingly cheery and inventively rhythmic deconstruction of male aggression, multidisciplinary performers Dan Froot and David Dorfman turn whole libraries of behavioral science into the satiric Live Sax Acts. Live Sax Acts remains deft, funny and devastatingly on target from first to last.”
“Mr. Dorfman and Mr. Froot are the ultimate male bondees, and they are gifted performers who know how to celebrate and tease that closeness. Live Sax Acts is essentially a complex, deliciously literate and wicked look at two friends and the larger world that surrounds them.”
...and more!
“Impish, erudite, sensitive, and sidesplittingly funny, Dan Froot is much more than just a dancer-choreographer. He began as a jazz saxophonist-composer and has created award-winning experimental theatre works that combine music, movement, and text into brainy, laugh-a-minute explorations of profound personal issues.”
“Froot is an evocative storyteller with a crazy, irrepressible imagination and the simplest and most unassuming of performance styles. As a result, his subtle and unexpected shifts between comedy and tragedy can be harrowing. Without sentimentality, Froot manages to suggest the naivete of the hip, the pain of long repression and the terror of feeling alone. Full-throttle laughter turns to dazed silence as Froot spins his audience with him into a dark vacuum. It is quite an achievement.”
“No one probes the intimate relationship between a sax player and his horn quite as boldly as Dan Froot. His texts and onstage persona slip from the comedic to the poignant, his wry sincerity allowing the dark elements to sneak up on you. We read him as both daring and vulnerable.”
“Lighthearted and singular. Dan Froot takes the stage with a saxophone in a performance that is sax comedy, sax rap and sax dance. The hilarious piece is a wonderful exploration of sound tempered by a fertile imagination, a childlike sense of wonder and great technical virtuosity.”
“Froot is a beguiling performer, shamelessly mingling virtuosity, emotional coloring, willfulness and playfulness.”
“Dan Froot is both imaginative and unclassifiable...a dancer, storyteller and actor who could be puckish one moment and poignant the next.”
