01/24/2025
Save The Date For Gala 2025!
We would love to see you there as we celebrate our continued commitment to bringing life-affirming performances and joy to audiences worldwide.
Tuesday, May 13
7:00pm Opening Night Performance* at The Joyce Theater
8:30pm Cocktails, Dinner and Dancing at TAO Downtown Restaurant
*Special Gala Program
Photo: Rachel Neville
01/23/2025
🚨 Mark Your Calendars! 🚨
Don’t miss your chance to be part of the Parsons Dance 2025 Summer Intensive!
💥 Scholarship Application Deadline: February 14
💥 Early Bird Pricing Ends: March 31
💥 Registration Closes: June 6
💥 Summer Intensive: June 16-28
Save your spot to train alongside Parsons company artists! Learn more at parsonsdance.org/summer-intensive
01/16/2025
This weekend in Lake Worth, FL! The company returns for the first time since 2022 for its 7th appearance at the . We are delighted to share a program that includes such cherished repertory works as Whirlaway, Wolfgang, The Shape of Us, and Caught, along with Robert Battle’s Takademe and Jamar Roberts’ Juke.
➡️ Swipe to see the 1991 playbill from our first appearance at the Duncan Theatre.
We’ll see you soon, Lake Worth!
Photo 1: David Parsons’ The Shape Of Us by Michele Stoppa and Sante Crepaldi
Photo 2: 1991 playbill courtesy of Parsons Dance Archive
01/14/2025
Thank YOU! Parsons Dance extends heartfelt thanks to our generous supporters whose contributions to our end of year appeal campaign allowed us to exceed our goal and move forward with exciting plans for 2025.
Catch us on the road in our upcoming performances, plus at for our New York City season this spring:
January 17-18 ➡️Duncan Theatre (Lake Worth, FL)
March 16 ➡️Lone Tree Arts Center (Lone Tree, CO)
April 5 ➡️Lied Center for Performing Arts (Lincoln, NE)
April 12 ➡️Auditorium Theatre (Chicago, IL)
April 17 ➡️Irvine Barclay Theatre (Irvine, CA)
May 13-24 ➡️The Joyce Theater (New York, NY)
May 30-31 ➡️Penn Live Arts/Annenberg Center (Philadelphia, PA)
💥Stay tuned for more announcements about our upcoming performances.
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01/08/2025
Today we are wishing a happy birthday to company dancer ! Join us in celebrating Joe 🎉
Photo featuring David Parsons’ “Caught” by
01/07/2025
🎟️ Tickets on sale NOW for our 2025 annual New York City season at ! 🎟️
Taking place from May 13-24, the season features much-loved pieces from the Parsons Dance repertory; a world premiere created by Rena Butler, the choreographer designated by Dance Magazine as “the epitome of contemporary cool;” and Robert Battle’s “The Hunt,” described by The New York Times as a “chilling tour de force” performed to “an excitingly percussive” score.
Learn more and buy tickets at parsonsdance.org/2025-new-york-city-season
Photo of Robert Battle’s “The Hunt” by Rachel Neville
12/28/2024
Your generosity is incredibly important to us as we wish you a rewarding and peaceful new year. With only a few days remaining in 2024, please act quickly to include Parsons Dance in your end of year giving plans.
Your support will help us thrive, and we thank you deeply for it.
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12/20/2024
Happiest holidays and a joyous new year from all of us at Parsons Dance! ❄️♥️
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12/19/2024
Our 2025 Summer Intensive — Register Now For Early Bird Special Pricing 📣
💥 June 16-28
💥 Marymount Manhattan College in NYC
One of our most sought-after educational programs, the Intensive offers students and aspiring professionals the chance to develop their contemporary dance technique and to learn new and classic works from the company repertory while receiving individualized instruction from David Parsons and our dancers. Learn more and register today at parsonsdance.org/summer-intensive 🔗
Photo: Rachel Neville Studios
12/18/2024
A great reason why Parsons Dance has flourished for nearly 40 years is because of friends who embrace the company’s indomitable spirit. With your help, we accomplished much this past year, and we thank you immensely for it!
👉From holding 36 outreach events with more than 1450 in-person attendees and almost 13,000 digital viewers
👉To creating and performing two new works: David Parsons’ “The Shape Of Us” and Jamar Roberts’ “Juke”
👉And staging 59 shows across 21 cities in the U.S. and Brazil before returning to Italy for the first time in 2 years, where over 18,000 Parsons fans greeted us with unbounded enthusiasm!
As we anticipate an equally fabulous 2025, we ask for your ongoing support. Please include us in your end of year giving plans. Donate today at parsonsdance.org/annual-fund 🔗
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Education & Outreach photo featuring the students at : Joe Rayome
Creation of New Works photo featuring David Parsons’ “The Shape Of Us”: Giovanni Daniotti
Performances photo featuring our 2024 Italian Tour: Parsons Dance Archive
12/17/2024
Today we’re sending a happy birthday to former company dancer, ! 🎉
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12/17/2024
On December 9 and 10, the company was honored to join the roster of Red Bucket Follies, representing and taking place at Broadway’s New Amsterdam Theatre. Initiated by our friends at Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (), the show is named for the iconic red buckets that, for six weeks, volunteers hold in Broadway theater lobbies to collect audiences’ post-performance contributions. For our part in this fantastic display of songs, skits and dances, we staged the last section of David’s “Whirlaway,” his beloved New Orleans tribute created to an Allen Toussaint soundtrack. Thanks to our dear friends at for including us in these magical and moving afternoons!
Congratulations to the Broadway, Off Broadway and touring productions that raised an astounding $5,320,146 for Broadway Cares and their essential life-saving programs.
Photo: , courtesy of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
12/11/2024
OUR 2025 JOYCE SEASON | May 13-24
Parsons Dance arrives at exhibiting the company’s joyous spirit, athletic prowess, and virtuosic moves to music that have delighted audiences for nearly four decades. The eclectic roster includes cherished David Parsons works like “In The End,” set to music by the Dave Matthews Band; “Wolfgang,” named for its Mozart score and praised by for its “muscular partnering and spiraling turns;” and, yes, the iconic “Caught.” Highlighting the program: a world premiere created in collaboration with composer Darryl J. Hoffman (), and Robert Battle’s “The Hunt,” an intense dance created to a pounding soundtrack by Les Tambours du Bronx, the celebrated French percussion band.
🎟️ Tickets will go on sale to the general public on January 7, 2025.
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12/06/2024
After a final stop in Genoa, the curtain closed on our 2024 Italian Tour! We want to extend a huge thank you to everyone who made this tour possible: To our gracious presenters, theaters, and crew. To our talented dancers and guest artist Elena D'Amario. To the incredible students, participating schools who took part in our intensive, and Gisella-Zilembo Eventi Danza. And to our audiences who cheered us on along the way — Grazie mille!
We arrived home with immense gratitude and joy. Until next time, Italia! ❤️🇮🇹
♦️ Tour produced by Art Works Production
in collaboration with , distributed in Italy by SAVA' Produzioni Creative
Theaters: Teatro Arcimboldi Milano, Teatro Verdi Gorizia, Teatro Celebrazioni, Teatro Amintore Galli, Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, Teatro La Fenice di Senigallia (AN), Teatro Massimo di Pescara, Teatro Olimpico Roma, CINEMA TEATRO di Chiasso, Teatro Sociale di Mantova, Teatro Comunale di Lonigo, Teatro Clerici Brescia, Gran Teatro GEOX Padova, Teatro Colosseo Torino, Teatro Metropolitano Astra, Teatro Comunale di Adria, Politeama Genovese.
Intensive in partnership with Gisella Zilembo
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Special partner: ,
11/30/2024
Today we are wishing a happy birthday to former company dancer and rehearsal director - Liz Koeppen Kalosieh!
Liz took the Parsons Dance stage for the first time at Jacob’s Pillow in 1989. In our momentous return to the Pillow this summer, we celebrated Liz’s long standing dedication and passion for our work.
Congratulations on 35 years and thanks for all that you do, Liz. We love you!
11/29/2024
Today, we’re sending a happy birthday to company dancer .ziminski in Italy! Join us in wishing her a fantastic day✨
Photo of Megan in David Parsons’ “Caught” by Shelly Marshall Schmidt
11/28/2024
Happy Thanksgiving from Parsons Dance 🍂🍁
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11/23/2024
For nearly four decades, Parsons Dance has created and performed inspiring work that lifts the human spirit, and we are grateful to so many of you for supporting our efforts. Your love for what we do energizes us. We are reaching out to ask that you support us now by including Parsons Dance in your end of year giving plans.
2024 HIGHLIGHTS
⭐️Education & Outreach: Highlighting our abundant education and outreach efforts were programs in New York City schools, student matinees, special sensory friendly performances and workshops, and in person and digital masterclasses and workshops.
⭐️Creation of New Works: We created and performed a new David Parsons’ work and one made by Jamar Roberts. During a productive fall residency at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts, we collaborated with choreographer on a compelling new piece that is set to premiere in spring 2025.
⭐️Performances: We are proud to share that our U.S. and international touring has gleaned over 30,000 audience members.
As we look forward to 2025, we will be sharing our dancers’ perspective on 2024 program highlights and how they have impacted our community. Visit parsonsdance.org/annual-fund to read more about our season and support Parsons Dance today! 🔗
Photo 1 featuring our 3rd annual partnership with and Battery Playscape: Joe Rayome
Photo 2 featuring ’s “Juke” at :
Photo 3 featuring a post performance Q&A at the : Shay Richards