Dancers' Workshop

Doggie Hamlet is a full-length outdoor performance spectacle that weaves dance, music, visual, and theatrical elements with aspects from competitive sheep herding trials. Recalling the bucolic impression of a landscape painting or a 3D pastoral poem, it is performed by six human performers, one American Sign Language interpreter, two herding dogs, and a flock of sheep. The animal and human performers and the earth’s surface are at once performing as themselves and as living symbols. Through story, motion, site, and stillness, Doggie Hamlet explores instinct, sentience, attachment, and loss.