2024 Performance - TRISHA BROWN DANCE
On September 21 and 22 at Manitoga, Trisha Brown Dance company presents Trisha Brown: In Plain Site, featuring selections from Brown’s groundbreaking work staged in dynamic dialogue with Manitoga’s woodland landscape. The audience will move from Mary’s Meadow to the inner quarry landscape - an approach to dance that Brown helped pioneer in the 1970s on her path to developing an original abstract movement language. Among early seminal works, a program highlight is Raft Piece (1974) where four dancers, each on a raft upon the Quarry Pool, perform a series of accumulating gestures in unison.
TRISHA BROWN (1936 - 2017)
One of the most acclaimed and influential choreographers and dancers of her time, Trisha Brown’s groundbreaking work forever changed the landscape of art. A student of Ann Halprin, Brown participated in the choreographic composition workshops taught by Robert Dunn – from which Judson Dance Theater was born – greatly contributing to the fervent of interdisciplinary creativity that defined 1960s New York. Expanding the physical behaviors that qualified as dance, she discovered the extraordinary in the everyday, and brought tasks, rulegames, natural movement, and improvisation into the making of choreography. Brown’s earliest works took impetus from the cityscape of downtown SoHo, where she was a pioneering settler. In the 1970s, as Brown strove to invent an original abstract movement language – one of her singular achievements – it was art galleries, museums, and international exhibitions that provided her work its most important presentation context.
TRISHA BROWN DANCE COMPANY (TBDC) is a post-modern dance company dedicated to the performance and preservation of the work of Founding Artist Director and Choreographer, Trisha Brown, and projects related to her legacy. Established in 1970, TBDC has toured throughout the world presenting work, teaching, and building relationships with audiences and artist alike.
For more information: trishabrowncompany.org / instagram.com/trishabrowncompany
This performance is made possible, in part, through support from the Sara Little Turnbull Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, Manitoga’s Board of Directors & Leadership Council, and the 2024 Art & Design Host Committee.
Top: © Vikki Sloviter, Raft Piece (1974); Choreographed by Trisha Brown. Performers: Kimberly Fulmer, Leah Ives
Bottom: © Francine Fleischer