Cage Shuffle

Q&A actor/performer Paul Lazar and choreographer Annie-B Parson moderated by choreographer Peter Pucci

2019. 30 m. Josh Higgason. US. English. Rated NR.

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The sequence of the stories is random. The sequence of the dance is not. The performer follows Cage’s original performance instructions: “Read stories aloud, with or without additional musical accompaniment, paced so that each story takes one minute. Read all stories in order or select a smaller number, using chance procedures or not.”—John Cage

In this short film abbreviated version of Cage Shuffle Paul Lazar speaks a series of one-minute stories by John Cage from his 1963 score Indeterminacy while simultaneously performing choreography by Annie-B Parson. The stories are spoken in a random order with no predetermined relationship to the dancing. Chance serves up its inevitable blend of strange and uncanny connections between text and movement. With live tape and digital collage scored and performed by composer Lea Bertucci.

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Q&A actor/performer Paul Lazar and choreographer Annie-B Parson

Tuesday, Aug. 20 2019, 7:00

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Actor, Paul Lazar and choreographer, Annie-B Parson are talented in collaboration with one another and in their own right. Together in 1991 they founded Big Dance Theater and have since created over 20 large scale works for such venues as BAM, The Japan Society, The Old Vic/London and many many more.

Lazar's decades long career finds him at home on both stage and screen. With wide ranging - wildly creative projects from being an Associate Member of the Wooster Group to directing productions at St. Ann's Warehouse featuring David Byrne or BAM's Next Wave Festival featuring Frances McDormand to acting in more than 30 feature films, including Snowpiercer, The Host, Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia to name but a few.

Parson has created choreography for a wide array of artists which include, David Byrne, David Bowie, St. Vincent, Laurie Anderson, Jonathan Demme and beyond. Her work with David Byrne has spanned more than a decade with their most recent collaboration, American Utopia on Broadway this Fall.

Choreographer Peter Pucci is a Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel award winner. He was a Principal Dancer with Pilobolus Dance Theatre. Pucci created and presented his own works for his company, Peter Pucci Plus Dancers. He has hosted and been a guest moderator for Dance on Film programs since 2009.