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Performing Arts BIG DANCE THEATER PLAN B (WORLD PREMIERE) THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 2004, 8 PM, $18 ($9) FRIDAY-SATURDAY, JANUARY 9-10, 2004, 8 PM, $18 ($14) SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, 2004, 2 PM, $18 ($14)

"In Parsons and Lazar's magic realism, surprising events seem normal, comedy and tragedy dance hand in hand, and the trivial assumes profundity." --The Village Voice

The Walker and the Southern again launch Out There with a newly commissioned work--this time from the fertile, surreal imaginations of Big Dance Theater directors Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar. Plan B imaginatively explores the intrigues of power and betrayal, wittily blending Taiwanese torch songs reconstructed by Gary Lucas (Captain Beefheart) with textual material from the "secret" Nixon tapes and the biography of Kaspar Hauser, the famous "wild child" of 19th-century Germany. Co-commissioned by the Walker Art Center and presented in association with the National Performance Network (NPN).



SUPPORTED IN PART WITH FUNDS FROM THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS.