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Big Dance Theater returns with The Mood Room, a mythic and piercing mix of theater, dance, and spoken opera.
Against the urgent, experimental laptop music of Holly Herndon, Annie-B Parson’s Big Dance Theater explores a story of five sisters in 1980, gathered in their childhood Los Angeles home. The Mood Room is set during early Reaganism, when Americans were urged to spend and shop rather than actively participate in civic society. In the physical and metaphorical mood room, the all-female cast dives into a deep self-indulgent bubble, retreating from their responsibilities as participants in the larger world. Referencing multiple texts, including Chekhov’s Three Sisters and soap operas, The Mood Room is a mirror for being and nothingness, angst and regret, class and navel-gazing.
Conceived, directed, and choreographed by Annie-B Parson Music by Holly Herndon Performed and cocreated with Elizabeth DeMent, Theda Hammel, Jennie MaryTai Liu, Kate Moran, and Michelle Sui*
Sound Design and Recomposition: Mark degli Antoni Set Design: Lauren Machen Lighting Design: Joe Levasseur Video Design: Keith Skretch Costume Design: Baille Younkman Sound Associate: Keenan Hurley Sound Engineer: Michael Alexander Hernandez Production Manager: Alexandra Vasquez Dheming Stage Management: Thomas Dieter and Rachel April Producer: Sara Pereira da Silva Tour Representation: ArKtype / Thomas O. Kriegsmann Rehearsal Assistants: Andrew Collins, Rebecca L. Miller, and Olivia Palacios
*Creative process included original cast member Brittany Engel-Adams
The Mood Room by Annie-B Parson / Big Dance Theater © 2020 Based upon the play Five Sisters by Guy de Cointet (1982) with some additional text from Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters (1901)
The Mood Room, image courtesy of Big Dance Theater, photo: Maria Baranova
WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY The Wexner Family Greater Columbus Arts Council The Columbus Foundation Ohio Arts Council American Electric Power Foundation L Brands Foundation Adam Flatto Mary and C. Robert Kidder Bill and Sheila Lambert Institute of Museum and Library Services Nationwide Foundation Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease Arlene and Michael Weiss
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY Mike and Paige Crane Pete Scantland Axium Packaging Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams President Kristina M. Johnson and Mrs. Veronica Meinhard Nancy Kramer Huntington Lisa Barton Johanna DeStefano Russell and Joyce Gertmenian Liza Kessler and Greg Henchel Ron and Ann Pizzuti Joyce and Chuck Shenk Bruce and Joy Soll Clark and Sandra Swanson Jones Day
Past Performing Arts
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