I have never been particularly interested in the boundaries between the different artistic disciplines. Instead, my process embraces a wide swath: research, writing, design, choreography, direction, performance, and fabricating all the figures, sets and objects. All disciplines are inseparable, integrated and essential tools for me, put to the task of art-making. Puppetry is an elegant synthesis of it all, and the puppet's reliance on movement as its primary means of communication, makes it the logical next step from physical theater and dance, in which I was originally trained. My commitment to making interdisciplinary art finds a home under the roof of puppetry.
 
 
"Non c'e' un cane" (Work-in-progress), video stills.
Toy theatre piece, based on a Futurist sintesi by Francesco Cangiullo (1884-1977)
View full video on Vimeo (password: there is no dog)
 
 
 
 
Disfarmer Takes a Walk, (2009). Video stills.
Premiered at St. Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn NY. Music by Dan Moses Schreier.
 
 
 

"Double Aspect Bright and Fair," by Erik Ehn, 2012. Premiered at La Mama, NYC



Photo:courtesy Quyen Nguyen


"Double Aspect Bright and Fair," by Erik Ehn, 2012. Premiered at La Mama, NYC



Photo:courtesy Quyen Nguyen


"Who's Hungry/Santa Monica," 2011. Collaboration with Dan Froot. Premiered at Highways, LA



Photo:courtesy Rose Eichenbaum


"Who's Hungry/Santa Monica," 2011. Collaboration with Dan Froot. Premiered at Highways, LA



Photo:courtesy Rose Eichenbaum


"Hiroshima Maiden," 2004. Premiered at St. Ann's Warehouse, NYC


"Hiroshima Maiden," 2004. Premiered at St. Ann's Warehouse, NYC



Photo: courtesy Richard Termine


BIO
http://www.danhurlin.org

Dan Hurlin has worked as a performer with Ping Chong, Janie Geiser, Annie B. Parson & Paul Lazar, and Jeffrey M. Jones. He has directed premieres of works by Lisa Kron, Holly Hughes, Dan Froot and John C. Russell, among others. His works have been awarded the Village Voice OBIE and New York Dance and Performance award (a.k.a. "BESSIE), among others.  He received individual artist fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Hampshire State Council on the arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Creative Capital and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Dan Hurlin has served on the faculties of Bowdoin, Bennington and Barnard College, Princeton University and is currently the Director of the Graduate Program in Theater at Sarah Lawrence College where he teaches devising theatre, dance composition and puppetry. He serves on the board of the MacDowell Colony and recently stepped down from the board of the Jim Henson Foundation. Dan was the recipient of a 2004 Alpert Award in the Arts and was named the 2009 United States Artists Prudential Fellow in theater. 

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