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Stage: Hot Ticket
By JOHN FLEMING
© St. Petersburg Times, published April 12, 2001
Parsons troupe dances in
The David Parsons Dance Company has been around since 1987, when Parsons left the Paul Taylor Dance Company, with which he had been a leading dancer. He formed his own troupe along with lighting designer Howell Binkley. Despite a dazzling reputation, Parsons became widely known outside the modern dance community only with the company's performance in Times Square on New Year's Eve 2000, which was televised around the world.
The Parsons Company dances Monday in Sarasota. The program features one of Parsons' signature pieces, the strobe-lighted Caught (to the music of Robert Fripp), as well as his Anthem, The Envelope and Fill the Woods With Light. There are also three works by choreographer/dancer Robert Battle, a Florida native who has been with the company since 1994. The 10 dancers in the troupe include another Floridian, Henry Jackson, who was born in St. Petersburg, graduated from the Pinellas County Center for the Arts and joined the company in 1998. Parsons himself is not dancing.
Monday's performance is at 8 p.m. at Van Wezel Hall. Tickets: $25-$29. (800) 826-9303.
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