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.
Posts Tagged ‘OtherShore’
Spotlight on: Annie-B Parson & Paul Lazar
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009Spotlight on: OtherShore
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
OtherShore is a unique company led collaboratively by dancers that brings together choreographers, designers, composers, musicians, and veteran dancers to create original work.
OtherShore debuted in 2008 at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York, and is co-directed by Sonja Kostich, a former member of American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, Zurich Ballet and the White Oak Dance Project, and Brandi Norton, a former dancer with the Trisha Brown Company for nine years. Collectively, the dancers of OtherShore have credits with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Patrick Corbin Dances, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, White Oak Dance Project, Limon Dance Company, San Francisco Ballet, Hamburg Ballet and the Royal Danish Ballet. The mission of OtherShore is to create work that reflects the versatility of its collaborators, to focus on growth and creativity as artists, and to share with the public this desire to produce valuable and entertaining work.
Aszure Barton & Artists / OtherShore
Friday, February 20th, 2009
Aszure Barton Artists
Aszure Barton & Artists - World Premiere
OtherShore - The Snow Falls in the Winter
Thursday, Oct 8: 8:00 p.m.
Friday, Oct 9: 2:00 & 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, Oct 10: 5:30 p.m.
Mertz Theater
Tickets: $30, $25, $20, $10
One of Canada’s most talented young choreographers, Aszure Barton is rapidly carving out a place for herself on the international dance scene. Currently the Resident Choreographer for Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, Ms. Barton has choreographed new works for Mikhail Baryshnikov, Sydney Dance Company, The Martha Graham Dance Company, and the Broadway stage. Drawing from classical ballet and contemporary dance vocabularies, Barton plumbs the human psyche to craft a new work that explores the visual architecture of movement, color and sound.
“Aszure Barton is a skillful choreographer with a very interesting mind.” – The Village Voice
“Barton is clearly brilliant… The layers of tension are disturbing and delicious.”
– San Francisco Chronicle
Aszure Barton’s new work is commissioned by The Ringling International Arts Festival.
Founded by Sonja Kostich and Brandi Norton (former dancers with American Ballet Theatre and Trisha Brown Dance Company, respectively), OtherShore debuted in 2008 with a program of commissioned works, including The Snow Falls in the Winter. Created by Annie-B Parson and co-directed by Paul Lazar of Big Dance Theater, The Snow Falls in the Winter was named one of Dance Magazine’s “10 best choreographies in 2008.” A poignant dance-theater piece, it borrows from Eugene Ionesco’s The Lesson, exploring notions of training and teaching, examining the cusp between right and wrong, true and false, artifice and reality.
“Riotously, beautifully more than its parts…” – The New York Times
“We’ll continue to wonder where else this ambitious troupe will take us.” – Dance Magazine
“The Snow Falls in the Winter reinforces two already-evident impressions: These dancers have many talents; this enterprising young group deserves a bright future” – The Village Voice
