Artistic Direction and Concept: Davalois Fearon 
Choreography: Davalois Fearon
Music: Ryan Wolfe
Projected Art: Kay Sage (American, 1898-1963) The Instant, 1949. Oil on canvas. Mattatuck Museum, Bequest of Kay Sage, 1964-65; KSCX68.10

Princeton University's 2025 Spring Dance Festival: Threshold
Premiere Date: April 4th and 5th 2025, Hearst Dance Theater
Dancer: Moses Abrahamson 
Photo: Jon Sweeney
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“Fragmentations” is a solo work created for Princeton University's 2025 Spring Dance Festival, Threshold—a showcase of new performances and choreography by Princeton dance seniors, featuring works by guest choreographers. Performed by senior Moses Abrahamson and choreographed by Davalois Fearon, “Fragmentations” explores the tension between stillness and motion, presence and absence, as the dancer moves through the ruins of a world left behind. Inspired by Kay Sage’s The Instant, Fearon’s choreography responds to Sage’s surreal, desolate landscape—fragmented and dreamlike—navigating shifting forms and incomplete gestures that blur the boundaries between structure and decay. Through movement, the piece grapples with the act of rebuilding, piecing together remnants of the past to construct something new, yet never whole.
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Thank you to the Mattatuck Museum for granting permission to project Kay Sage’s The Instant during the performance of “Fragmentations.” A pioneer of American Surrealism, Sage used imagined worlds to explore the unconscious and the unknown. Emerging in the early 20th century as a response to war, trauma, and disillusionment, Surrealism rejected logic and embraced imagination as a call for change. In many ways, it was a form of protest—a mirror to the absurdity and injustice of the world. Its influence echoed through the Civil Rights Movement, challenging oppressive systems and envisioning new futures. Today, its power endures. In honoring Sage, we also honor the legacy of art as resistance—still vital, still necessary.