Trisha Brown Dance Company in Son of Gone Fishin’. Photo © Ian Douglas.
Seattle – February 6, 2016
Trisha Brown has been building movement since the 1960s, creating work that examines the movement of the human body in relation to the space around it. Like the Judson Church artistic collective, of which she was a founding member, Brown’s work rejects dramatic narrative, focusing instead on building complex movement patterns from pedestrian gestures. Brown has described herself as “a bricklayer with a sense of humour.” Yet, for all her structural rigour, it’s the brick she lays askew that connects her work to the cadence of the human experience.
Trisha Brown Dance Company in PRESENT TENSE. Photo © Nan Melville.
At the Meany Center for the Performing Arts, the Trisha Brown Dance Company gave the last performances of Brown’s works created specifically for theatre stages, in a program called Proscenium Works 1979-2011. Works performed were:
Son of Gone Fishin’
You can see us
Rogues
PRESENT TENSE
Earlier in the day at the Seattle Art Museum, the company performed thirteen pieces or excepts of Brown’s site-specific work, in a program called Trisha Brown: In Plain Site. Works performed were:
Figure Eight
Accumulation
Newark (Niweorce) (Excerpt)
Astral Convertible (Excerpt)
Leaning Duets
I’m going to toss my arms – if you catch them they’re yours (Excerpt)
Sticks
Scallops
Set and Reset (Excerpt)
Les Yeux et l’âme (Excerpt)
Group Primary Accumulation with Movers
Opal Loop (Excerpt)
Spanish Dance
Read the review in the Summer 2016 issue of Dance International.
Trisha Brown. Photo © Lourdes Delgado.
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