7:00 pm. Big Dance Theater, Cage Shuffle

World Premiere

Saturday, January 7, 4:00pm & 7:00pm
Sunday, January 8, 4:00pm & 7:00pm
Run Time: 50 minutes

Abrons Arts Center, G05
466 Grand Street / Single Tickets / Festival Pass

In 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.

“…Read all ninety stories in order or select a smaller number, using chance procedures or not.”
Indeterminacy performance instructions by John Cage

Cage Shuffle is a production of Big Dance Theater and made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Additionally, the production received funding from the Starry Night Fund; the W Trust; the McGue Millhiser Family Trust; Mertz Gilmore Foundation; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New York Theater Program; and was also funded, in part, by the Big Dance Theater Creation Circle, lead individual contributors committed to the development and support of the company’s newest works.