BIG DANCE: SHORT FORM is Big Dance Theater, distilled. BDT returns to its dance roots for its 25th anniversary celebration, theatrically re-imagining the conventions of a repertory program. Big Dance: Short Form presents the company’s unique blend of dance-theater on an intimate scale, with a fifteen minute birthday party at its center. Intermission will never be the same.
Inspired by disciplines of the concise — novellas, folk tales, diary entries, pencil drawings, thumbnail sketches and the single page of a notebook — Big Dance performs five distinct short works, each a New York premiere, that embrace the brief, granular, close range, anecdotal and microscopic. Downsizing is prized.
Solos, duets and group work feature the beloved, veteran Big Dance performers who, under the artistic leadership of Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar, have honed a distinctive performance style that has influenced the downtown scene in NYC for the last 25 years.
PREMIERE:
November 6, 2015 | American Dance Institute/ADI Incubator
PERFORMANCES:
April 7 – 8, 2016
25TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
Fusebox Festival
Austin, TX
January 6 – 16, 2016 (*New York Premiere)
25TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
The Kitchen
New York, NY
November 6 – 8, 2015 (*World Premiere)
Solange MacArthur Theater
American Dance Institute/ADI Incubator
Rockville, MD
Co-directed and conceived by Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar
Choreographed by Annie-B Parson
Lighting by Joe Levasseur
Costumes by Oana Botez and Suzanne Bocanegra
Sound by Tei Blow
Visual Design by Joanne Howard
Video by Jeff Larson
Performed by Tymberly Canale, Elizabeth DeMent, Paul Lazar, Jennie Liu, Aaron Mattocks, and Enrico D. Wey
Producer Aaron Mattocks
Company Manager Sara Procopio
Administration Management Artspool
Production Stage Manager Brendan Regimbal
Associate Sound Designer Eben Hoffer
Costumes construction by Lydia Gay, Talla Dia, Rosa Lumagbas, Jacy Barber
“Effortless mastery…is a rare and wonderful thing. How rewarding to experience Big Dance Theater’s display of it.” –Washington Post
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“Every once in a while, an audience exits a theatre feeling deeply alive. Lit. Satisfied. Big Dance Theater’s anniversary show is programmed with the canny sensibilities of a master chef, transporting one’s taste buds across the gamut of flavors and textures but never forgetting the tart tickle.” –Dance Tabs
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“It’s always entrancing to watch the company’s gifted performers—some of whom have been a part of Big Dance Theater for a decade or more—field movement, words, props, and costume changes amid film clips, and scenic elements; they can slip into a character, out of it, and into another with almost shocking dexterity.” –DanceBeat
