Upcoming

2023

March 31
Big Dance Theater
The Road Awaits Us
Connecticutt Colege
New Haven, CT

April 6
Big Dance Theater
The Road Awaits Us
Carolina Performing Arts
Chapel Hill, NC

2022

Postponed until further notice
Big Dance Theater
The Mood Room
Out There Festival, Walker Art Center (postponed)
Minneapolis, MN

September 2022
Big Dance Theater
The Mood Room
The Wexner Arts Center
Columbus, Ohio

2021

November 30-December 5, 2021
Big Dance Theater
The Mood Room
BAM FISHER in association with The Kitchen
Brooklyn, NY

2021 – RESIDENCIES

May 17 – May 29
LMCC, NYC

June 2-9
Stephen Petronio Residency, Tivoli, NY

July 19-24
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

August 5-10
BAM Fisher, NYC

2020

November 2, 2020
Annie-B Parson, David Lang, Brittany Engel-Adams, Ron Erlih
Hand Dance
Virtual Commission by Works & Process at the Guggenheim
New York, NY

November 1, 2020
Big Dance Theater
Cage Shuffle: A Digital Duet 
Commissioned by the Wexner Art Center
Columbus, OH

September 18, 2020
Big Dance Theater
#king with Stacy Dawson Stearns
La MaMa Downtown Variety #14
New York, NY

May 20, 2020
Big Dance Theater with Deborah Johnson/CandyStations
6′
The Onassis Foundation curated by The Chocolate Factory
New York, NY

January 24-26, 2020
Big Dance Theater
Antigonick
Carolina Performing Arts
Chapel Hill, NC

CREATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF NEW WORK

Feb 26 – March 7, 2020
Residency at Atlantic Center for the Arts
Orlando, FL

April 14-26, 2020
Caroline Hearst Choreographers-in-Residence
Princeton, NJ

2019

Nov 8 & 9, 2019
Big Dance Theater
The Road Awaits Us
NYU Skirball Arts Center
New York, NY

July 18, 2019
Cage Shuffle
Black Mountain College
Asheville, NC

July 12-14, 2019
Big Dance Theater
Cage Shuffle and Ballet
Spoleto Festival/La MaMa Umbria
Spoleto, Italy

April 2-14, 2019
Martha Graham Dance Company
I used to love you
The Joyce Theater
New York, NY

March 8 & 9, 2019
Cage Shuffle
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ

2018

December 13-16, 2018
Big Dance Theater
17c
Calperformances
Berkeley, California

Nov 14-17, 2018
Big Dance Theater
Antigonick
Abrons Arts Center 
New York, NY

October 9, 2018
Cage Shuffle
Urbang Festival
Cologne, Germany

September 26-29, 2018
Big Dance Theater
17c
Dance Umbrella/Old Vic*
London, UK.

Hear Annie-B’s interview on Monocle 24 here.

August 25 & 25, 2018
Big Dance Theater
17c
Tanz Im August,
Berlin, Germany

June 10, 2018 3-4pm
Annie-B Parson
Japanese Traditional Theater and Dance in Contemporary Performing Arts Salon Series No. 62
Guest Artists: Annie-B Parson and Yoko Shioya.

May 1, 2018
Annie-B Parson/Big Dance Theater
Air Guitar
Danspace Gala

April 30, 2018
Annie-B Parson
Showing
Center for Ballet and the Arts
New York University

Annie-B Parson:
Center for Ballet and the Arts Fellow
New York University

Paul Lazar:
Visiting Faculty
Theater, Dance & Media
Harvard University

2014

September 30 – October 4, 2014
Alan Smithee Directed This Play 
Brooklyn Academy of Music – Next Wave Festival
BAM Harvey Theater
Brooklyn, NY

August 21 – 23, 2014
Alan Smithee Directed This Play 
Tanz im August Festival
Hebbel am Ufer – HAU1
Berlin, Germany

May 15 – 18, 2014
Man in a Case
Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, IL

April 24 – May 10, 2014
Man in a Case
Broad Stage
Santa Monica, CA

March 27 – 30, 2014
Alan Smithee Directed This Play  *world premiere
Week_End Ça Va? Festival
Les Subsistances
Lyon, France

February 25 – March 2, 2014
Man in a Case
ArtsEmerson
Boston, MA

January 25 – February 16, 2014
Man in a Case
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Berkeley, CA

January 2 – 9, 2014
Alan Smithee Directed This Play 
Hatchery Project creative residency
RED Arts Project
Philadelphia, PA[/one_half_last]

*This engagement is supported by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Howard Gilman Foundation.

2017

November 14 – 18, 2017
17c (*NY premiere)
Brooklyn Academy of Music – Next Wave Festival
BAM Harvey Theater
Brooklyn, NY

November 9 – 10, 2017
17c (*world premiere)
Carolina Performing Arts
Chapel Hill, NC

October 28, 2017
17c (special preview performance)
Mass MoCA co-presented with Jacob’s Pillow Dance
North Adams, MA

October 24 – 25, 2017
Cage Shuffle
DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN

October 22, 2017
Cage Shuffle
co-presented by The Poetry Foundation
Links Hall
Chicago, IL

September 7 – 9, 2017
17c (special preview performances)
FringeArts
Philadelphia, PA

August 14, 2017
Cage Shuffle
A.P.E. Ltd. Gallery
Northampton, MA

August 6–12, 2017
Anne Carson’s Antigonick (workshop/reading)
Williamstown Theatre Festival
Williamstown, MA

July 27, 2017
Cage Shuffle
Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, MN

June 26 – July 23, 2017
17c Creative Development Residency
Abrons Arts Center
New York, NY

June 23 – 24, 2017
The Road Awaits Us (*world premiere)
Commissioned for the 2017 Elixir Festival
Elixir Ensemble
Sadler’s Wells
London, UK

June 1, 2017
Cage Shuffle (excerpt)
David Byrne’s: This Is How Music Works
The Town Hall
New York, NY

April 7 – May 28, 2017
Here Lies Loveby David Byrne and Fatboy Slim
Director: Alex Timbers
Choreographer: Annie-B Parson
Seattle Repertory Theatre
Seattle, WA

April 4 – May 14, 2017
Samara by Richard Maxwell
Director: Sarah Benson
Featuring Paul Lazar
Soho Rep
New York, NY

March 3 – 4, 2017
Cage Shuffle
Poets House
co-presented by the Battery Park City Authority
New York, NY

February 14 – 26, 2017
I used to love you  *world premiere (Program A and C)
Choreography by Annie-B Parson
Martha Graham Dance Company
The Joyce Theater
New York, NY

January 25, 2017
Cabinet Duet
Choreography by Annie-B Parson
Performance by Elizabeth DeMent and Mark Dion
Bard Graduate Center
New York, NY

January 19, 2017
Peace Ball
Choreography by Annie-B Parson
Performance by Esperanza Spalding
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Washington, D.C.

January 11 – 12, 2017
17c (in-progress excerpts)
American Realness Festival
Gibney Dance / Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center
New York, NY

January 7 – 8, 2017
Cage Shuffle (*world premiere)
American Realness Festival
Abrons Arts Center
New York, NY

2016

October 25, 2016 – January 22, 2017
Lazarus by David Bowie and Enda Walsh
Director: Ivo van Hove
Choreographer: Annie-B Parson
Kings Cross Theatre
London, UK

October 22, 2016
When a Priest Marries a Witch
An Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra, Starring Paul Lazar

The Arts Club of Chicago
Chicago, IL

October 14 – 15, 2016
25TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
Big Dance: Short Form
Institute of Contemporary Art
Boston, MA

October 5 – 7, 2016
25TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON

Prelude Festival

New York, NY

September 23 – 24, 2016
When a Priest Marries a Witch
An Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra, Starring Paul Lazar

Abrons Arts Center
New York, NY

September 16 – 17, 2016
25TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON

Resplendent Shimmering Topaz Waterfall
Shared program with Takao Kawaguchi
Japan Society
New York, NY

August 15 – 29, 2016
25TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
New Work 2017: Take One
Offshore Creation Residency
The Yard
Chilmark, MA

August 13, 2016
David Lang’s the public domain
Conductor: Simon Halsey
Choreographer: Annie-B Parson
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Mostly Mozart Festival
New York, NY

July 13 – 15, 2016
25TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
Program A: Doug Elkins, Big Dance Theater and David Neumann
Victory Dance
The New Victory Theater
New York, NY

June 1 – 26, 2016
Creative Development Residency
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Brooklyn, NY

May 2- 17, 2016
Research Fellowship: Paul Lazar and Annie-B Parson
MacDowell Colony
Peterborough, NH

April 28, 2016
PS122 Gala honoring Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar
With Appearances and Remarks by David Byrne, Elizabeth Dement, Jonathan Demme,
Elephant Room Magic Society, DJ Chris Giarmo, Cynthia Hopkins, Jonathan E. Jacobs
aka The Vintage DJ, Aaron Mattocks, Joseph V. Melillo, Steven Reker

New York, NY

April 13- 17, 2016
25TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
This Page Left Intentionally Blank (world premiere)
University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts
CounterCurrent Festival 2016 @ The Menil Collection
Houston, TX

April 7 – 8, 2016
25TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON

Big Dance: Short Form
Fusebox Festival
Austin, TX

March 20, 2016
25TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
Film screening: Another Telepathic Thing
Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA

February 14, 2016
25TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
Film screening: Another Telepathic Thing
Rosendale Theatre
Rosendale, NY

February 10, 12 and 13, 2016
25TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON

This Page Left Intentionally Blank (preview performances)
Mass MoCA
North Adams, MA

January 21, 2016
25TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
Film screening: Another Telepathic Thing
Jacob Burns Film Center
Pleasantville, NY

January 6 – 16, 2016
25TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON

Big Dance: Short Form (New York premiere)
The Kitchen
New York, NY

2015

November 6 – 8, 2015
Big Dance: Short Form (world premiere)
American Dance Institute
Rockville, MD

August 17 – 28, 2015
Big Dance: Short Form
Creative Development Residency
The Kitchen
New York, NY

July 8 – 12, 2015
Alan Smithee Directed This Play: Triple Feature
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
Becket, MA

June 8, 2015
World Premiere Film Screening: Another Telepathic Thing
Baryshnikov Arts Center
New York, NY

March 2 – 27, 2015
BAC Space 2015: Creative Development Residency
Baryshnikov Arts Center
New York, NY

January 26 – 31, 2015
Hatchery Project: Creative Development Residency
Chocolate Factory Theater
Long Island City, NY

January 10, 2015
Big Dance: Short Form – Summer Forever
Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center