History and Highlights
2010: In July, David Parsons was awarded the Howard Gilman Fellowship to attend the MFA program at Jacksonville University
2010: Parsons Dance was featured on Italian TV Show, “Amichi,” in March.
2009: On August 13th, David Parsons’ first full evening-length dance work, Remember Me, premiered in New York on WLIW Channel 21, followed by multiple local and national screenings.
2009: On April 25th, Bruce Marcus and Joe Locarro presented Operatic Heat, a collaboration between Parsons Dance and the East Village Opera Company, at the Lycian Centre for the Performing Arts. The event was aired in August as a Public Television Pledge Special with WGBH in Boston as the presenting station.
2008: In May, David Parsons was featured on an Audi commercial.
2007: The first Parsons Dance Study Guide for teachers and students in grades K through 8 was published in collaboration with the Ferst Center for the Arts at Georgia Tech.
2007: On September 3, 2007, New York Magazine previewed Maria de Buenos Aires, an artistic collaboration between Parsons Dance and Gotham Chamber Opera, calling David Parsons, “one of modern dance’s great living dance-makers.”
2007: On July 27, 2007, Jennifer Dunning of The New York Times called Artistic Director David Parsons, “one of the great movers of modern dance,” in a preview to the Summerstage performance by Parsons Dance.
2007: In the summer of 2007, David Parsons became the first contemporary choreographer to choreograph at the Arena di Verona in Italy. Parsons choreographed AIDA, which was presented from June 23 through September 1, 2007.
2007: David Parsons directed the prestigious Italian program, “Festival di Sanremo,” which aired internationally via Sanremo, Italy in February.
2007: Parsons Dance was featured in the photography book and exhibit entitled, “The Dancer Within,” by photographer Rose Eichenbaum. The exhibit will tour around the country from spring 2008 through the summer of 2011, presented by the Smithsonian Institution’s Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES).
2007: David Parsons was honored by the National Foundation for Facial Reconstruction for his dedication, creativity and hard work with Arts for Medicine events over the past three years.
2007: Parsons Dancer Abby Silva was featured as a dancer On The Rise, by Dance Magazine in the May 2007 issue.
2002: David Parsons was presented with the American Choreography Award for outstanding achievement in television for his work with AEROS.
2001: David Parsons was presented with the American Choreography Award, for his work as a co-producer of AEROS, a production aired on Bravo that featured the Romanian Gymnastic Federation.
2000: David Parsons was presented with a Dance Magazine Award for his achievements in dance.
2000: David Parsons choreographed and directed the dance elements for Times Square 2000, the 24-hour festivities in Times Square celebrating the turn of the Millennium, which was watched by billions of people all over the globe.
1999: David Parsons was awarded the National Artist Award by the University of Arizona in Tucson for his outstanding work with young people.
1995, 1989 and 1988: David Parsons received Choreography Fellowship Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
1994: Parsons Dance and the Billy Taylor Trio performed their collaborative work, Step Into My Dream, on a live broadcast by Nebraska ETV Network.
1992: David Parsons collaborated with Julie Taymor and designer Michael Curry on a film project called Fools’ Fire.
1991: Danmarks Radio filmed Parsons Dance for a television program that was broadcast in the United States, Europe and South America.
1987: Caught, David Parsons’ signature fusion of technology and art, was televised nationally on Alive From Off Center.
David Parsons is the first and only artist to have been featured twice as “Artist of the Week” on A & E Television Network’s, “Breakfast With The Arts.”
