COMPANY PERFORMANCE HISTORY
In 1994 David Parker won a finalist award for choreography at the IVth International Competition for Choreographers of Contemporary Dance in Groningen, the Netherlands for his notorious male thumb-sucking pas de deux "Bang and Suck" and began a series of successful European tours including appearances at the 1999 Holland Dance Festival, the Nervi Estate Festival (Italy) 2002, the IVth Biennale Internationale de Charleroi/Danses (Belgium) 1999, The Archivolto Festival in Genoa (Italy) 2000, BalletUmbria Festival Perugia (Italy) 2001, DanceWeek Festival Zagreb (Croatia) 2001, Konfrontace Festival Prague (Czech Republic) 2001, Divadelna Nitra Theater Festival (Slovakia) 2001 and a special Citations from the jury of the Kurt Jooss Prize in Essen (Germany) for "Bang and Suck" in 2001 and the Najinsky Awards in Monaco in 2002.

In 2002 Dutch designers Melanie Rozema and Jeroen Teunissen received a New York Dance And Performance Award (Bessie) for their collaboration with David Parker & The Bang Group, creating an explicitly functional and dysfunctionally hilarious achievement in costume design. North American touring highlights include appearances at First Night Boston (2003) Dance Affiliates in Philadelphia (1999), Sushi Performance & Visual Art in San Diego (1998), Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center (1998, 2001), Peterborough New Dance in Ontario, Tangente in Montréal, Portland Performing Arts Association in Maine, Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out Series, Actors Theater of Louisville Flying Solo Series and at a great number of colleges and universities.

Over the past four years The Bang Group has received financial support from The Greenwall Foundation, The Jerome Robbins Foundation, Arts International, the Netherland-America Foundation, The Fund for Mutual Understanding, The Manhattan Community Arts Fund, Heathcote Art Foundation, Puffin Foundation, First Light Commissioning Initiative with funds from The Jerome Foundation and the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, Pearl Productions and The Hale Matthews Foundation as well as from many individual patrons. In 2001 The Bang Group received a Build Grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts.