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warrior ant

A species of ant that is known to travel in armies and capture other ants. In today's class, we will study the behavior of the warrior ant.
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Of particular significance was an epic road trip through the Blue Ridge Mountains to see The Warrior Ant by Lee Breuer and Bob Telson at Spoleto [see article, page 26].
Memories in a box
The central character, the Warrior Ant, is a well-meaning activist naif who may be a metaphor of Breuer himself.
Les Atrides
Beaver Animation, to the 1987 extravaganza, The Warrior Ant. Indeed, a Lee Breuer piece - whether he wrote or directed it - is rarely complete without Maleczech on stage, whispering lines into a microphone.
Ruth Maleczech: her life in art
It's been pretty well established by now (The Mahabharata, Les Atrides, The Warrior Ant) that the cross-cultural exercise doesn't give the funny bone much of a workout.
Julie Taymor: Playing with Fire
The third installation of a trilogy that includes The Shaggy Dog Animation and The Warrior Ant, An Epidog is the after-death account of a dog's life told through Japanese Bunraku puppetry.
Mabou Mines live on in cyberspace
Despite the inflated title, the project under development (which was on view at Richard Foreman's Ontological Hysteric Theater in New York City this past November) is a winningly modest piece of work, having little in common with the technological grandiosities of late '80s Breuer work like The Warrior Ant proper, Sister Suzie Cinema, or even The Gospel at Colonus.
Hunkering down with Mabou Mines
Especially noteworthy are her glimpses of Fornes's remarkable skill at fostering a kind of dynamic immobility in her actors, an "active stillness," by urging them "to find that hollow, that space inside you, that place where I am when I write"; Akalaitis's fascination with the "mechanical" and the "utilitarian," and her "avoidance of interpretation" during the early part of the rehearsal process; Wilson's coaching actors with kinetic rather than psychological language, and his technique of creating structure not through naturalistic dialogue but by postulating "lines of force on the stage" (like "a diagram of a tennis match"); and Breuer's proficiency at "splintering" the title character of The Warrior Ant by using multiple impersonations: narrators, singers, dancers and puppets.
Directors in Rehearsal: A Hidden World
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