Big Dance Theater
The Other Here
Coffee and Conversation Pre-Show Talk: Sept 19 with Chris Mills
Post-Show Talk Sept 19 with Stephen Greco
Big Dance Theater premiered their first work at Dance Theater Workshop in 1990 and quickly became known for their fearless fusion of dance, music, and literature. Big Dance Theater’s newest work, The Other Here, layers the rural stories of Japanese novelist Masuji Ibuse with a life insurance sales conference. Live Okinawan pop music and reinventions of traditional dance punctuate the differences between master and servant, pop and ancient, and East and West. This work is “funny, smart and unexpectedly moving.” (Washington Post)
The Other Here was lead commissioned by the Japan Society where it premiered in February, 2007 and was co-commissioned by the Bessie Schönberg/First Light Commissioning Program and Creative Residency Program of Dance Theater Workshop with support from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Jerome Robbins Foundation. This performance is a part of Turning Japanese, a city-wide celebration commemorating Japan Society’s Centennial. This presentation is made possible, in part, by the generous support of Helen and Peter Haje, and The Starry Night Fund of The Tides Foundation through the David R. White Producers Circle.