Concept & Artistic Direction: Annie-B Parson / Artistic Co-Direction: Paul Lazar / Choreography: Annie-B Parson and the company / Sound Design: Tei Blow / Set Design: Joanne Howard / Costume Design: Oana Botez / Lighting Design: Joe Levasseur / Video Design: Jeff Larson / With: Elizabeth DeMent, Cynthia Hopkins, Paul Lazar, Mikéah Jennings and Kourtney Rutherford / Executive Production: Aaron Mattocks / Production Management: Carl Whipple / Production Stage Management: Ilana Khanin / Wig Design and Construction: David Bova / Associate Sound Design: Eben Hoffer / Associate Set Design: Andreea Mincic / Sound Engineering: Tyler Kieffer / Video Assistant and Operation: Jorge Morales Picó / Set Construction: Joseph Silovsky and Infinite Studios / Costume Construction: Talla Dia/Talla Design, Karen Boyer
Big Dance Theater
17c
- Tanz im August
German Premiere
Duration: 80 min
Language: English
This genre-exploding troupe from New York City, excavates the past so as to comprehend on the present. Their new performance “17c” rips open Samuel Pepys’s diaries, in which this 17c man meticulously, and without censorship, notes his daily doings – from his infidelities, and perversions, to his dancing lessons and binge-shopping sprees. Was he a forerunner of our social-media culture as he carefully crafts his identity through his image? This intimate portrait is complemented by the voice of his contemporary, the writer Margaret Cavendish. In this way Big Dance Theater creates a savvy texture of music, dance, text and video.
Production: Big Dance Theater
Co-Commissioned by: FringeArts (Philadelphia), Carolina Performing Arts/UNC Chapel Hill, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Old Vic/London, The Yard (Chilmark, MA), Diane and Adam E. Max, Virginia and Timothy Millhiser, the Starry Night Fund, Helen and Peter Haje, and the Heimbinder Family Foundation
Funded by: the Big Dance Theater Creation Circle, individual contributors committed to the development and support of the company’s newest works
Supported by: Howard Gilman Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards program, the Emma A. Sheafer Charitable Trust, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New York Theater Program, the W Trust, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature
Residency supported by: MacDowell Colony, AIRspace program at Abrons Arts Center
