Created for Lucky Plush in 2008 by Peter Carpenter, The Sky Hangs Down Too Close is a darkly satirical dance-theater work that responds to the themes of conflict and desire in Bertolt Brecht's "In the Jungle of Cities" (1924). Created the work in collaboration with the ensemble, Carpenter focused on the concept of "unmotivated struggle”—a key theme for Brecht—as a way to understand the ways in which we move and are moved.