On January 22, 2004 The Los Angeles Times featured Arianne MacBean as one of "five who are raising the barre" in the LA dance scene. Noted as one of the city's "movers and shakers" MacBean was highlighted in the weekend calendar cover story as a "dance activist" for her work with the Dance Moving Forward Festival, Dance Resource Center, and Oakwood School. As Artistic Director of The Big Show Co, the Times said that MacBean was "at home with whimsy as she is with mining the female psyche... a face to watch."

About The Big Show Co.

The Big Show Co., under the direction of Arianne MacBean, incorporates movement, text, theater and music in order to create hybrid dance form that engages and entertains. The Big Show Co. debuted as part of the California Choreographers Festival in Laguna Beach in 1999. The Big Show Co. has a repertoire of over twenty works and has performed at such venues as The DIA Center for the Arts and WOW in New York City, The Skirball Cultural Center, The Museum of Contemporary Art, The Armand Hammer Museum, Electric Lodge, Barnsdall Art Park, Highways Performance Space, and the El Portal Theater in Los Angeles. In August on 2001, the company toured Germany teaching workshops and performing in Freiburg, Munich, and Amoltern.

The Big Show Co. offers workshops, and educational performance events that incorporate a combination of dance, writing, improvisation and audience participation. For information about booking The Big Show Co. for performances, workshops, residencies, or commissions please e-mail:amacbean@earthlink.net