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 The Other Here   (2007) Layered with the company’s fearless fusion of dance, music and visual design, The Other Here collides the rural stories of Japanese novelist Masuji Ibuse (1898–1993) with a global conference of life insurance salespeople. Okinawan pop music and re-inventions of traditional dance punctuate this juxtaposition of master and servant, pop and ancient, East and West.

 

Plan B  (2004) Appropriating Nixon’s secret oval office tapes and  setting them against the diaries of wild child Kaspar Hauser, Plan B explores the dynamics of loyalty, trust and betrayal.

 

 City of Brides  (2004) Parson set out to choreograph this work in order to know more about Stravinsky,  but along the way met another fan of Stravinsky, composer Richard Einhorn . City of Brides, a dance quintet for five women,  is in  equal parts indebted to Stravinsky’s  Les Noces, the folkloric world of Stravinsky’s sources,  and the musical spin-off  created for Big Dance by Einhorn at the American Dance Festival in l995.  

 

 Antigone  (2002) Mac Wellman’s text explodes this well-known myth into a heap of shards, imagining it eons before Sophocles’ first dramatization.
 

 Shunkin  (2001) Based on a story by the great modern Japanese writer, Junichiro Tanizaki, and juxtaposed with text from Dylan’s Don't Look Back, Shunkin follows the secret love affair of a beautiful, cruel, and blind musician with the man who is both her servant and her disciple. 

 

 Another Telepathic Thing  (2000) splicing a story by Mark Twain with text from actual film and television auditions, a contemporary parable about faith, temptation, and transformation .

 

 A Simple Heart  (1997) A rich visual distillation of the Flaubert classic, depicting the obscure life of Félicité––a devoted domestic servant who endures the gradual loss of everyone around her.

 

 

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