One Breath is an Ocean for a Wooden Heart premiering in Zagreb is an unusual modern dance duet for a disabled dancer and an able-bodied dancer that continues to examine the relationship between physical transformation and identity. In this performance, the dancers wear 28" wooden stilts secured to their arms and legs. The stilts are constructed from familiar, every-day objects to create illusion and are a visually compelling tool of transformation. The queen-Anne style table legs enable the dancers to create a basic illusion of table and chair shape. In 2006, a Boston producer brought together Lisa Bufano and New York Choreographer Heidi Latsky. The resulting work, Five Open Mouths, is the product of an extensive and life-changing artistic relationship between these two creative spirits. The title refers to Lisa's experience of unwrapping her bandages and seeing her hands after surgery - a difficult, yet cathartic experience. In their first week working together, Latsky asked Bufano to write a personal story and to embody movement to tell that story. From this exercise, Bufano created an 'unraveling' gesture by varying the momentum of small circling with her hand at the wrist while creating a larger revolution around the axis of her elbow. Latsky refined and incorporated this gesture into the final section of the piece. Themes of unraveling and revealing and sleep and sleeplessness resonate throughout Bufano's performance. Set in five tableaux, Five Open Mouths is defined by Bufano's physical transformations through the character of her movement, the use or lack of leg prosthetics, and silence juxtaposed with music.