Love, Please

Ever since Susana Hayman-Chaffey was showcased in a solo and duet by Merce Cunningham in Signals (1970), she has been on the map as one of the most extraordinary dancers of this decade, her phenomenal security in balance makes one think shes super-structured with steel. Her sustained suppleness and extradimentional flexibility make one think she packs an inward flowing heat that leaves her surface cool while it keeps her central axes white hot.

--ROBERT GRESCOVIC (The Village Voice). Grescovics reviews have appeared in The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times. He is a lecturer in Theatre and Dance in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University.


Love, Please is a memoir of a timeless love story between a man and a woman from opposite sides of the world. They meet in Tokyo when she is there on tour, and each immediately realizes they are soul-mates. Their story unfolds over a period of seventeen years, from the mid seventies to the early nineties, chronicling the extraordinary adventure of their lives together. Satoru Oishi is a architect and sculptor who works with Jasper Johns and Phillip Johnson. Susana Hayman-Chaffey is a soloist with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. The backdrop is their Manhattan loft, from which they travel around the world making a living any way they can, and learning about life through dramatic, often humorous, ups and downs.

It is a voyage of love between two people, their families, friends and children. It encourages and inspires us to keep faith in the midst of what seems to be an impossible life journey, proving that, with courage and determination, anything can be accomplished. It is a human story told simply and honestly about life and love.