Ringling International Arts Festival Blog in Sarasota, FL. Theater, Dance, Music and Visual Arts

Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar (creator + director of The Snow Falls in the Winter) founded Big Dance Theater in 1991. The company and its directors have been honored with a New York Dance and Theater ‘Bessie’ Award, an OBIE, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Jacob’s Pillow Creativity Award for Choreography, and two fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts. They have created 15 pieces for the company, touring nationally and internationally to such venues as The Walker Art Center, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, The American Dance Festival, The Spoleto Festival USA, On the Boards, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Yerba Buena Arts Center, and UCLA, Live!, as well as international festivals and venues in the Netherlands, France, Italy, Tbilisi, Brazil and Germany. In New York City, their work has been presented at many venues, but most often at Dance Theater Workshop, The Kitchen, Classic Stage Company, and the Guggenheim Works & Process Series.