Annie-B Parson

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Annie-B Parson (* 20th century USA ) is an American choreographer , dancer and theater director .

Life

Parson founded the Big Dance Theater in Brooklyn , New York City in 1991 with Molly Hickok and her husband Paul Lazar . The pieces she has created for the company so far include pure dance pieces, adaptations of theater pieces and works of literature, as well as creations in which she combined different genres. She carried out commissioned work for the Brooklyn Academy of Music , for the Parisian Théâtre national de Chaillot , the Japan Society in Manhattan and for the cultural center in Minneapolis , Minnesota , the Walker Art Center .

In 2012, Parson choreographed the world tour that David Byrne made with the singer St. Vincent , as well as Brian Eno's world tour in 2008/2009. Another world tour by Annie Clark followed in 2014. Her dances were seen in the film Ride, Roar, Rise via Davis Byrne, her choreographies are part of the 2010 opera Dark Sister by Nico Muhly, produced by Walt Disney at the Soho Repertory Theater in Manhattan, from Orlando to Virginia Woolf by Sarah Ruhl and from other productions. She worked with the American composer Richard Einhorn and created the work City of Brides with him as a choreographer for the Young Choreographer's Conference at the American Dance Festival .

At the Tanz im August festival , the Big Dance Theater performed the play Alan Smithee Directed This Play, directed by Paul Lazar .

Parson has taught choreography at the Experimental Theater Wing at New York University since 1993 .

honors and awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alan Smithee is to blame! in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on August 17, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Parson, Annie-B
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American choreographer, dancer, theater director and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH United States