Big Dance Theater

09/21/2026

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If there is something we all have in common, it is movement. As Akram Khan put it: “Movement is the essential ingredient of how the world continues, or survi...

03/26/2026

And TODAY, THE OATH will have its European premiere .
5:15pm at the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. There will be a Q&A with Alla Kovgan.
Link in Bio for tickets.

concept & choreography by Annie-B Parson
a film directed by Alla Kovgan
stage to screen adaption by Alla Kovgan & Elizabeth DeMent

cast:
Mawu Ama Ma’at Gora
Brooke Ashley Rucker
Stacy Dawson Stearns (Dance Captain)
Natalie Green Meg Harper -Jou Tang Jin Ju Song-Begin Joanna Kotze Jenn Nugent .jenn Devin Oshiro Pamela Pietro .pietro Kendra Portier Chanel Stone Paz Tanjuaquio Isabel Umali .umali devika wickremesinghe (Dance Captain)

associate choreographer: Elizabeth DeMent
producer: Sara Pereira da Silva
director of photography: Mko Malkhasyan, ACG
editor: Alla Kovgan
costume design: Samantha McElrath
costume construction: Liv Rigdon
sound design: Tei Blow
sound mix: Mark degli Antoni

Line Producer: Dawn Han Production Coordinator: Sara Procopio 1st AD: Derrick Tseng
2nd AD : Piera Leonetti
1st AC: Beth Fletcher
2nd AC/DIT: Kyle Isler
Steadicam: Ben Spaner
Gaffer: Joseph Albino
Best Boy Electric and Board Operator: Bill MacCartney
Key Grip: Gabriel Solorzano
Crane Operator:
VFX: Cooper Troxell
Colorist: Ben Federman .xyz

03/19/2026

This Friday in Hudson, NY — a work in progress at Time & Space Limited - https://mailchi.mp/3e1235525361/this-friday-in-hudson-ny-a-work-in-progress-at-time-space-limited

02/04/2026

Paul Lazar wins OBIE! - https://mailchi.mp/f6789e03eb5f/paul-lazar-wins-obie

12/11/2025

Big Dance 2025 things! -

We also celebrated our publication of Dance History(s): Imagination as a Form of Study in 2025. Interdisciplinary and collaborative, this project gathered twelve choreographer-writers to collectively explore the subject of dance history through the perspectives of artists themselves. We launched the...

09/05/2025

Big Dance Things! - https://mailchi.mp/541b2ea77956/big-dance-things

07/21/2025

Join Big Dance and Pan Pan on Saturday, July 26 at 5:00 PM at Coffey Street Studio in Brooklyn for a live conversation and the fifth installment of the Performance/Talk series.
CAN I TRY SOMETHING? is an experimental residency between Big Dance Theater and Ireland’s Pan Pan.
Artistic directors Annie-B Parson, Paul Lazar, and Gavin Quinn (Pan Pan) will be joined by performers Salma Ataya, Faith Jones, Elizabeth Dement, and Pete Simpson to reflect on collaboration, and creative process.
Moderated by writer/director Isaac Butler (The Method), this talk invites anyone curious about how performance is made—and re-made—through dialogue.
📍153 Coffey Street, Brooklyn
📅 Saturday, July 26 | 🕔 5:00 PM

Free & open to the public - reserve your ticket - link in bio.
Presented as part of the Coffey Street Studio Artist Initiative.

📸 Caption: Four performers in a rehearsal studio engage in a physical scene: one sits in a chair touching the head of another on all fours; a third leans forward watching, and a fourth sits on a mostly hidden performer behind a couch.

06/27/2025

The Forest of Metal Objects opens today at the Cloisters - https://mailchi.mp/4a94f3e9f88f/bam-our-book-13057996

03/28/2025

Spring Things 🌻 - https://mailchi.mp/1196413e739a/bam-our-book-12942871

02/12/2025

💥BAM: Our Book! - https://mailchi.mp/407e45ffb151/bam-our-book