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The Big Show Co. is a LOS ANGELES-based dance-theater troupe that integrates dance, theater, music, and visual imagery for performance and EDUCATION.

ABOUT THE BIG SHOW CO.

The Big Show Co. creates original dance-theater performance and community-based educational programming. Rooted in a passion for communication, MacBean creates work for The Big Show Co. that highlights the triumphs and failings of language - the language of the body and of text. MacBean makes work that is self-reflective - poking fun at human failings while exposing universal vulnerabilities that are simultaneously tragic and beautiful.

The Big Show Co. was founded in 1999 and integrates movement, text, theater, visual imagery, interactive sets, audience participation, and music. The Big Show Co. debuted as part of the California Choreographers Festival in Laguna Beach in 1999 and now has a repertoire of over twenty works. In New York they have been presented by The DIA Center for the Arts and WOW. In Los Angeles, they have been presented by Ford Theatres, The Skirball Cultural Center, The Museum of Contemporary Art, The Armand Hammer Museum, Electric Lodge, Barnsdall Art Park, Highways Performance Space, the El Portal Theater, Electric Lodge, Diavolo Dance Space, CalArts Commuter Festival and REDCAT's Studio, as well as by The A.W.A.R.D. Show! produced by The Joyce Theater NY, and ODC in San Francisco. The company toured Germany in 2001 teaching workshops and performing in Freiburg, Munich, and Amoltern.

The Big Show Co. is the home for Scripting The Body, Memory Writing & Movement workshops, and Creative Problem-Solving workshops - all programs that support interdisciplinary approaches to community-building and engagement in and around Los Angeles. (see Teaching) The Big Show Co. makes cutting edge dance-theater accessible to diverse audiences, and includes audiences in the act of art-making. TBSCo. is committed to providing opportunities for mutual recognition for people of different backgrounds and experiences and to building bridges through innovative, inclusive creative practices.

Company Members Include:

Angelina Attwell (Performer) is a dancer, educator, and freelance photographer. A passionate arts and children’s rights advocate, Attwell founded Mighty Me Arts Education Co. to bring arts instruction to children in foster care systems and orphanages around the world. She received a B.A. in Dance from C.S.U. Long Beach, and is currently on the Dance Faculty at Oakwood School. She is a Postpartum Doula and nutritionist at Heart Space Postpartum.

Genevieve Carson (Performer) is Faculty at American Musical and Dramatic Academy. Her performances, choreography, and teaching span North America, Philippines, Argentina, Sweden and New Zealand. She was the Artistic Director of L.A. Contemporary Dance Company, and has performed worked with String Theory Productions, AXIOM, Rosanna Gamson/Worldwide, kDub Dance, and Lula Washington Dance Theatre. She holds a B.F.A. in Dance Performance from Chapman University.

Brad Culver's (Performer) favorite recent performances include Sleep (BAM Next Wave/Yale Rep), Gertrude Stein’s Brewsie and Willie (The Public Theatre’s Radar L.A.), and One Man, Two Guvnors (Berkeley Rep.). Culver is founding member of LA-based Poor Dog Group. He received his B.F.A. in Theatre from CalArts.

Max Eugene (Performer) is Haitian-American, raised partly in Brooklyn. Eugene studied Philosophy, Theaters Arts, and Dance at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and received an M.F.A. in Performance at CalArts. He currently teaches Filmmaking at ELC Film Explorer at U.C.L.A., and produced two documentaries, as well as a set of films and music videos for Labcoat Meerkat Productions in 2019. He is currently Faculty at Los Angeles Film School.

Collaborators:

Nathan Clum, Dramaturg

Pablo Santiago, Lighting Design

Lynda Taylor, Costume Designer

Photo Credits: Dyanne Cano