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Maria Baranova
THE MOOD ROOM

first performed on November 30, 2021
BAM Fisher, Brooklyn, NY
performed seven times in 2021

BIG DANCE THEATER / ANNIE-B PARSON

Holly Herndon, Elizabeth DeMent, Theda Hammel, Kate Moran, Myssi Robinson, Michelle Sui, Mark degli Antoni, Lauren Machen, Joe Levasseur, Keith Skretch, Samantha Mcelrath, Baille Younkman, Brittany Engel-Adams, Jennie MaryTai Liu, Tina Satter

Brooklyn, NY

bigdancetheater.org

THE MOOD ROOM
BIG DANCE THEATER / ANNIE-B PARSON

Against the urgent, experimental laptop music of Holly Herndon, Annie-B Parson’s Big Dance Theater explores a story of five sisters in 1980, gathered in their childhood Los Angeles home. A mix of theater, dance, and spoken opera, “The Mood Room” is set during early Reaganism, when Americans were urged to spend and shop rather than actively participate in civic society. In the physical and metaphorical room, the all-female cast dives into a deep self-indulgent bubble, retreating from their responsibilities as participants in the larger world. Referencing multiple texts, including Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” and soap operas, “The Mood Room” is a mirror for being and nothingness, angst and regret, class, and navel-gazing.