Once There Were Six Seasons, was originally begun as a workshop in Spring 2013, and has seen multiple productions and a number of  reinterpretations in the past 8 years.  It is an interaction of human performers with manipulated landscapes, miniature puppets, and environmental forces. 

A visual feast of objects and textiles, from string and paper to recycled Styrofoam packing shapes, re-imagined as rainclouds and river valleys, mine workers, polar bears, and islands sinking into the sea. It observes the ripple effects of changes in migratory patterns, population surges and decreases, and other natural phenomena; it follows those ripple effects into a near, and a far future, one that includes rebirths, dead ends, and adaptations throughout the natural world.

Through manipulation of small puppets and their large environments, the piece observes ecosystems from the Americas, Africa, India, Asia, and the Arctic where we watch as the tiny humans and animals struggle against drought, flood, heat and violent storms. Once There Were Six Seasons asks, “what have we done and what can we do?”