The Choreography of Everyday Life

A renowned choreographer explores the dance of everyday life and reveals that art-making is as natural as walking down the street

In this sparkling, innovative, fully-illustrated work, world-renowned choreographer Annie-B Parson translates the components of dance--time, proximity, space, motion and tone--into text. As we follow Parson through her days--at home, reading, and on her walks down the street--and in and out of conversations on everything from Homer's Odyssey to feminist art to social protest, she helps us see how everyday movement creates the wider world. Dance, it turns out, is everything and everywhere.

With the insight and verve of a soloist, Parson shows us how art-making is a part of our everyday lives and our political life as we move, together and apart, through space.

Author: Annie-B Parson
Publisher: Verso
Published: 10/11/2022
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781839766749
ISBN10: 1839766743
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Art & Politics
- Performing Arts | Dance | Choreography & Dance Notation
- Performing Arts | Dance | History & Criticism

About the Author
Annie-B Parson is an award-winning choreographer and co-founder of the OBIE and Bessie Award-winning Big Dance Theater. Ms. Parson has created choreography for opera, pop stars, television, theater, ballet, symphonies, objects, museums, augmented reality, and 1,000 amateur singers. Among many others, she has choreographed for David Byrne, St Vincent, David Bowie, Laurie Anderson, Esperanza Spaulding, and Mikhail Baryshnikov.