The Good Wife,
The Good Fight, and
Bridge and Tunnel. They discussed her process for designing sets from scratch, the challenges of sourcing objects and materials during a pandemic, and the artistic and technical factors that go into creating different characters’ spaces. This partial transcript has been edited and condensed for clarity.
June Thomas: Your newest show, which is on the Epix network, is called
Bridge and Tunnel, and it tells the story of six new college graduates who find themselves back home in Long Island right after graduating from college. It’s a period piece set in the ’80s. What special challenges do period pieces present?
On this week’s episode of Working, Isaac Butler spoke with choreographer Annie-B Parson, who is the co-founder and artistic director of Big Dance Theater. They discussed the relationship between music and movement, her experimental approach to theater with Big Dance, and her recent work choreographing David Byrne’s
American Utopia on Broadway and HBO Max. This partial transcript has been edited and condensed for clarity.
Annie-B Parson: I realized right away with COVID that people were becoming dancers, in that their spatial awareness was growing. We were literally afraid of each other’s presences. We were backing away from each other on the street, remember? We were walking in the bike lanes, right?