Since 1991, Big Dance Theater – led by Annie-B Parson – has been weaving dance, music, text and visual design into an award-winning, wide-ranging body of work.
Big Dance Theater is known for its inspired use of dance, music, text and visual design. The company often works with wildly incongruent source material, weaving and braiding disparate strands into multi-dimensional performance… Big Dance has delved into the literary work of such authors as Twain, Tanizaki, Wellman, Euripides and Flaubert, and dance is used as both frame and metaphor to theatricalize these writings. For more than 25 years, Big Dance Theater has worked to create over 20 dance/theater works, generating each piece over months of collaboration with its associate artists, a long-standing, ever-evolving group of actors, dancers, composers and designers.
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Recommended readings to accompany the Indefinite Article by Paul Lazar and Annie-B Parson.
- John Cage, Silence. Wesleyan University Press, 1961.
- John Haskell, The Complete Ballet: A Fictional Essay in Five Acts. Graywolf Press, 2017.
- Eugene Ionesco, Notes and Counter Notes: Writings on the Theater. Grove Press, 1964.
- Mark Strand, The Making of a Poem. W. W. Norton & Company, 2001.
- Paul Strathern, Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes. Rowman & Littlefield, 1996.
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November 4, 2019: Mimi Yin interviews Annie-B Parson about “The Road Awaits Us”
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Big Dance Theater by John Haskell
I got a taste of how they worked: slowly, and improvisationally, with layer upon layer of meaning folded into the piece.
Annie-B Parson by Maura Keefe
Fractious critical response to the plays of Euripides is exactly the kind of territory in which Big Dance Theater thrives.
Conversations: Annie-B Parson and Sibyl Kempson
“I find even structural work can be extremely personal.”
