Program Details

Scene 2 Love of the Harvest

Gullah-Geechee women working in Low Country fields are the colorful characters depicted in Love of Harvest.
Music: Carry Me Home

Scene 3 Daughters of the South

Daughters of the South is widely considered to be one of Jonathan Green's most important paintings. The two women are sisters, united by the same father and bonded by blood, their love of freedom, their history, and their future. Here, William has created a dramatic, dynamic ballet that confronts deeply rooted, controversial issues and, in many ways, holds the key to much of what Jonathan Green and the evening are all about.
Music: Lento con risoluzione from William Grant Still’s Afro-American Symphony

Scene 4 My Brother, Your Brother

My Brother, Your Brother is the counterpoint to Daughters of the South. With its grave exploration of invisible bonds and visible camaraderie, the ballet urges us all to examine powerful, age-old ideas and emotions that continue to have the power to unite our society or divide it.
Music: Sermon
Sibelius Violin Concerto in D- Minor


Scene 5 Three Vessels

Trekking through a saltwater creek, this dance highlights some of the themes most important to this ballet: place and community. This is a very physical, powerful piece.
Music: Down By the River
Me Dun Dun
It’s a Highway to Heaven


Scene 6 Sand Dance

On the beach a sand dance means as many different things as there are different people. On this sand are these people: a lone man surf fishing, a pair of lovers seeking the elements, and three beachcombers building sand castles around their blanket an cooler.
Music: to be determined

Scene 7 Inlet Bounty

Our protagonist is tangled in his own net, the net of his life's inner struggles. As he wrestles with his bonds he comes to represent each of us and our own personal trials and tribulations. At the vignette's conclusion, he not only finds freedom from his net but also a profound inner peace.
Music: a solo male, possibly singing "Amazing Grace."

The Silver Slipper Club, Oil on Canvas,
99" x 67", © Jonathan Green
Collection of the Morris Museum of Art

The Silver Slipper Dance Hall

On a sultry, summer Saturday night outside the Silver Slipper Dance Hall, young people from all over Beaufort County gather, eyeing each other and jockeying for position with the objects of their affection.

Snapping fingers and tossing hair, they follow the music spilling out the door and enter the club. To the sounds of a live dance band and singers, they swing and boogie, playing jokes and swapping stories.

Dancers and audience will experience the plotting, subterfuge and gossip that always accompany dressing up and going out. The evening's highlight: When the famed Bessie Mae takes the stage to belt out a few of her signature tunes.
Music: American popular music of the late 50's and early 60's.