Beyond Big Dance, Parson’s inventive oeuvre extends in seemingly infinite directions: opera, pop music, television, movies, ballet, marching bands, symphonies. She has been commissioned by theaters including the Old Vic Theatre in London, the Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris, and Les Subsistances in Lyon, and back in New York, institutions such as The Japan Society, The Kitchen, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Over the past 30-plus years with Big Dance Theater, her work has amounted to more than 20 choreographed and co-created works-ranging from pure dance pieces, to adaptations of literature and plays, to original works. In 1991, together with Lazar and their collaborator Molly Hickok, Parson co-founded Big Dance Theater.įrom that point forward, Parson threw herself into the world of dance. Soon after graduating, at the age of 25, she choreographed her first major theater production, Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Person of Szechwan, through which she met the actor and director Paul Lazar, whom she later married. Initially focused on the visual arts and set on a career in painting, Parson eventually shifted to the world of performance in college, and went on to earn her master’s in dance at Columbia University. From a young age, she began exploring the art form, taking choreography classes in high school and at age 16 starting her 20-year-long ballet training. In her new, aptly titled book, The Choreography of Everyday Life, an inventive, observant, and witty ode to her relationship with dance and movement over the course of her lifetime, she delves into exactly that belief.ĭance has long, or perhaps always, been a part of Parson’s sensibility. To Annie-B Parson, choreography isn’t confined to the studio and the stage rather, practically everything around us abounds with movement that’s worth paying attention to. Time Sensitive is produced by The Slowdown, a media company that tells stories across the cultural spectrum-from art and architecture, to food and fashion, to climate, technology, and beyond-that capture an emerging worldview. Theme Music: Billy Martin Illustrator: Diego Mallo Website Design: Apartamento Studios Born and raised in Colorado, he lives in Brooklyn. A trustee of the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, New York, Spencer is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and Dickinson College.
He is also the author of In Memory Of: Designing Contemporary Memorial s (Phaidon, 2020) and Tham ma da: The Adventurous Interiors of Paola Navone (Pointed Leaf Press, 2016). His latest book is Alchemy: The Material World of David Adjaye (Phaidon, July 2023). From 2013 to 2018, he was the editor-in-chief of Surface magazine. He has written at length about architecture, art, culture, design, and technology, and contributed to publications such as The New York Times Magazine, Fortune, and Bloomberg Businesswee k. He is also editor-at-large of the book publisher Phaidon and a contributing editor at Town & Country. Spencer is the editor-in-chief of The Slowdown and host of the Time Sensitive podcast. Host Spencer Bailey interviews leading minds about their life and work through the lens of time-how they think about time broadly and how specific moments in time have shaped who they are today. Candid, revealing portraits of curious and courageous people who have a distinct perspective on time.
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