#  Paul Lazar, Cage Shuffle 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 2, 2018** 

 06:00PM - 06:00PM EST 

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 **Farkas Studio 303, 12 Holyoke Street**  



 

 



 

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*Cage Shuffle* is a 50 minute dance/theater solo. In Cage Shuffle Paul Lazar speaks a series of one-minute stories by John Cage from his 1963 score *Indeterminacy*, while simultaneously performing a complex choreographic score by Annie-B Parson. The stories are spoken in a random order with no predetermined relationship to the dancing, yet chance serves up its inevitable blend of uncanny connections between text and movement. Cage’s humor, intellect and iconoclasm find ideal expression in this new work which adds dance to Cage’s original performance instructions: 

 *Read stories aloud, paced so that each story takes one minute, using chance procedures or not.*

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**About Paul Lazar** Paul Lazar is a founding member and co-artistic director, along with Annie-B Parson, of Big Dance Theater. He has co-directed and acted in works for Big Dance since 1991, including commissions from the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Walker Art Center, Dance Theater Workshop, Classic Stage Company and Japan Society. Outside of Big Dance, Paul directed Christina Masciotti’s Social Security at the Bushwick Starr in 2015, Elephant Room at St. Ann’s Warehouse for the company Rainpan 43 in 2012, and Young Jean Lee’s Obie Award winning, We’re Gonna Die in 2011. He directed a new version of *We’re Gonna Die* in 2015, featuring David Byrne, at the Meltdown Festival in London. He also directed B*odycast: An Artist Lecture* by Suzanne Bocanegra starring Frances McDormand for the 2014 BAM Next Wave Festival; and *Major Bang* for The Foundry Theatre at St. Ann’s Warehouse. Paul is an Associate Member of The Wooster Group, acting in *Brace Up!*, *Emperor Jones*, *North Atlantic* and *The Hairy Ape*. Other stage acting credits include *Tamburlaine* at Theatre For A New Audience, Young Jean Lee’s *Lear*, *The Three Sisters* at Classic Stage Company, Richard Maxwell’s *Cowboys and Indians* at Soho Rep, *Richard III* at Classic Stage Company, *Svejk* at Theatre for a New Audience, Irene Fornes’ *Mud* at the Signature Theater, and Mac Wellman’s *1965 UU*. He has acted in over 30 feature films, including *Snowpiercer*, *The Host*, *Mickey Blue Eyes*, *Silence of the Lambs*, *Beloved*, *Lorenzo’s Oil* and *Philadelphia*. His awards include two Bessies (2010, 2002), the Jacob’s Pillow Creativity Award in 2007, and the Prelude Festival’s Frankie Award in 2014, as well an Obie Award for Big Dance in 2000.

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