"The always adventurous Big Dance Theater, which makes vivid theater from disparate themes and images... Paul Lazar [is] a brilliantly subtle actor..."
– The New York Times
“The result is funny, smart, and unexpectedly moving. Also, it's daring. The results feel bracingly fresh. [It] does what art ought to do: It shows us something new."
– The Washington Post
"Such effortless dream logic delivered in a whimsical melancholy slice of enchantment is only to be expected from BDT."
– Time Out New York
“Some of the most interesting and intelligent performers in New York.”
– The Village Voice
“Deeply brilliant ...people need to see this amazing company.”
– The New York Times
“...even it you claim dance illiteracy, BIG DANCE THEATER’s fiercely visual work can move you to tears.”
– Time Out New York
"Big Dance Theater does, in fact, think big. It's a richly layered, multi-textured work that...always engages and greatly entertains."
– The Boston Globe
"Like some bastard offspring of David Mamet and David Lynch, Big Dance Theater...defies easy pigeonholing as dance or theater at the same time it utterly entertains and provokes. One of the funniest performances you're likely to see at The Pillow - or anywhere."
– Berkshire Living Magazine
“The most cohesive ensemble work in recent history.”
– Off Broadway Review
“Be forewarned: the company’s work has a way of sticking with you.”
– The Village Voice
“The most refreshing voice among a new generation of choreographers. Parson’s blend of dance and theater is accessible to any audience member regardless of age, race, gender or previous knowledge of dance.”
– Call Toronto
“Like innovators, not imitators...they know how to deliver a spectacle piping hot.”
– The Village Voice
“This splendid and adventurous company conjures up the most implausible choreographic and literary concoctions.”
– 2000 Obie Awards
“In Parson and Lazar’s magic realism, surprising events seem normal, comedy and tragedy dance hand in hand, and the trivial assumes profundity.”
– The Village Voice
“Beyond the formal pleasures and the wit of BIG DANCE THEATER’s work, there is dignity and gravity, a profound sense of something at stake, perhaps a search for truth.”
– American Theater Magazine
“A boldly arranged marriage of dance and theater that is equal parts classical and contemporary text, deft music-theater composition, gifted ensemble and inspired design. A constantly startling body of work.”
– 2002 Bessie Award
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