LAMENTATIO

LAMENTATIO is a companion piece to THE FALL '01 - (premiered 09/11/06), a dance-theatre epic about the empire at the precipice of its fall. It focuses on the suicidal Global War Of Terror. LAMENTATIO examines the emotional and physical damage to victims on all sides. As for polemics, LAMENTATIO is a call for re-humanization of all victims. Any veteran and any refugee of any armed conflict from anywhere in the world will be freely admitted to any showing in this premiere run, as well as all disabled persons.

New choreography by ALD and IA Directors, Agnieszka Laska and Curtis Walker, to a new score by ALD Resident Composer, Jackie Gabel composed around excerpts from the Missa pro defunctis - Requiem of Roman Maciejewski, with projected montages by video artist, Takafumi Uehara. Poetry is from "POEMS FROM GUANTANAMO, THE DETAINEES SPEAK," edited by Marc Falkoff, U. of Iowa Press, 2007 and "HERE, BULLET" by Brian Turner, A. James Books, 2005.

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