So, You Think You Can Choreograph?

Twelve years ago, a gaggle of experimental directors working at Richard Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theater asked choreographer Annie-B Parson to conduct a choreography workshop for non-dancers. Ms. Parson, the Bessie, Obie, and Guggenheim Fellowship–winning co-director of Big Dance Theater, had trained several waves of rising directors and performers at New York University’s Experimental Theatre Wing. But very few people outside of the program had ever seen her teach. That long ago workshop, in which she taught the likes of Sophie Haviland, Ken Nintzel, and the then unknown Richard Maxwell, was a blip.