Big Dance Theater: 17c

Paul Lazar and Annie-B Parson's avant-garde dance-theater company, founded in 1991, returns to the Next Wave Festival with a culturally eclectic ensemble piece about 17th-century English diarist Samuel Pepys. The cast comprises Lazar and Big Dance veterans Elizabeth DeMent, Cynthia Hopkins, Aaron Mattocks and Kourtney Rutherford.