

Dirty Old Man
(1995)
Dirty Old Man premiered in 1995 and this performance is from 1996 at the Bessie Schonberg Theater at Dance Theater Workshop, New York City.
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This 1995 work culminates a long term collaboration with Stuart Hodes that started in 1988 with There Were Three Men and then with Thicker Than Water in 1993.
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This work was first seen as a solo for Stuart Hodes and it expanded into a duet with Sara Hook.
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Dirty Old Man
Conceived, Directed and Choreographed by Stephan Koplowitz
Collaborators/Performers: Stuart Hodes and Sara Hook
Text by Stuart Hodes and Stephan Koplowitz
Lighting by Phil Sandstrom
Music by J.S. Bach
PRESS
“The... piece...about which I have... only a memory of pure pleasure was a collaboration with the two people who performed it: the 71-year-old Stuart Hodes, a Graham alum, and, as Hodes’ foil, Sara Hook.... Called Dirty Old Man, the duet gives us Hodes as a dapper fellow in a vanilla-hued suit and accessories, maintaining his equanimity in the face of approaching extinction.... His muse...treats Hodes with the spunky defiance women accord to the virile and deny the decrepit.”
-- Tobi Tobias, New York, 5/6/96
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“Stuart Hodes is the eponymous hero of Dirty Old Man, a bemused senior recalling old songs, long-expired TV shows, and stale excuses, but most often his sex life.”
--Robert Johnson, The Village Voice, 5/7/96