Program: Fables on Global Warming by Armitage Gone! Dance

Scene 7: The Ant and the Dove (Aesop) An ant colony hurries about it business at breakneck speed. One falls, but none of the other ants take notice. A dove sees the ant’s struggle and comes to its rescue. But just as the dove frees the ant from peril, a lion spies the dove is about to attack, when - a gnat distracts the lion from its prey. The ant and dove are saved.

Ants…………………….The Company Dove…………………....Ahmaud Culver Lion…………………….Cristian Laverde König Gnat……………………Masayo Yamaguchi Scene 8: The Gnat and the Bull (Aesop) A bull munches on grass. A gnat flies about thinking itself very important, so important in fact, that the bull is paying attention only to it. The bull could care less. When the gnat brags, the bull eats it.

Bull……………………..The Company Gnat………………….…Masayo Yamaguchi Scene 9: The Belly and Its Members (Aesop) The members of the bull’s body - the legs, feet, arms and head - get annoyed with the stomach.

They do all the work while the belly just sits there. They rebel, detaching from the lazy belly.

Gradually the members lose strength and begin to wither. They return to the belly and united, find strength.

Bull……………………..The Company Belly……………………Daniel LaMont Moore Scene 10: We Have Lost Our Taste For Acorns Based on Lucretius’ text On the Nature of the Universe, the song points out how quickly fashions come and go while the human appetite remains insatiable.

Fashionistas…………..The Company Scene 11: The Ant and the Cicada (Jean de La Fontaine) An ant colony hurries about its business at breakneck speed. The Cicada prefers a peaceful pace. Gradually she convinces the ants to slow down and change to a less reckless way of being.

Ants…………………….The Company Cicada………………….Abbey Roesner Scene 12: The Forest and the Woodcutter (Jean de La Fontaine) A woodcutter promises no harm and then wields his axe.

Trees……………………The Company Woodcutter…………....Cristian Laverde König Scene 13: Butterfly Dreams (Chuang Tzu) The Chinese Daoist fable shows that man and butterfly are connected as one and the same being, sharing nature.

Butterflies………..........Masayo Yamaguchi and The Company Woman…………….......Abbey Roesner This performance will be presented without an intermission.

Fables on Global Warming was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding provided by Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, through its Advancing the Incubation and Development of New Work in Dance initiative funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; and by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Additional funding provided by the MetLife Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, musical score commission by the Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation. The development of Fables on Global Warming was made possible through additional artistic residencies provided by MANA Contemporary, in Jersey City, New Jersey; the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas; and the McCormick Endowed Visiting Artist-Scholar Residency, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York.