Daddy Was A Milkman & AURA Dance Theatre: All About Love

A slow song. She is standing at the edge of the hall. You long to approach her, but wait, frozen, for a few more seconds. Until you gather the courage. For the first time, you are THIS CLOSE. And the smell of her hair drives you crazy. The world briefly ceases to exist. That is how Daddy Was A Milkman remembers summer camp discos and his first slow dances. Many years later, this experience comes alive in his music in a completely different form. On February 12, the premiere of the new performance “All About Love” by Daddy Was A Milkman and AURA Dance Theatre will take place in Alytus. Audiences in seven Lithuanian cities will be the first to see this exclusive performance. “All About Love” will tell stories of love at different stages of life—from the first hesitant steps and dizzy excitement to intimacy, challenges, self-love, and a more mature life together. As the years go by, our relationship with familiar songs changes too—revealing things you might not have noticed before. Daddy Was A Milkman will talk about love through songs, his own stories, and conversations with the audience, while AURA will give it another language: movement. Lithuania’s first professional contemporary dance theatre has been creating work in Kaunas for more than four decades, and today its company includes artists from different countries around the world. The choreography for “All About Love” will be created by AURA choreographer Robert Przybyl together with the theatre’s dancers. Appearing on stage will be Marianna Lo Coco, Susanna Maggio, Ester Bega, Victor Gil Méndez, Hector Valdovinos, Pepe Jaimes, Leandro Manzo, Otis Gilchrist Rikken, Tadas Almantas, and Joe Zhu.