REPERTORY/ ACTIVE REPERTORY

Trisha Brown: In Plain Site pairs indoor and outdoor sites with select pieces from Brown’s repertory. Each work is restaged in a dynamic relationship to the setting, amplifying Trisha Brown’s effortless af nity for naturalizing movement to the physical environment.

Ever a resourceful and dexterous innovator, Brown “...said she felt sorry for spaces that weren’t center stage— the ceiling, walls, corners, and wing space. Not to mention trees, lakes, and rehouses,” Wendy Perron recently wrote in Dance Magazine. “She caused a revolution by... turning to the spaces that other dance-makers don’t.” In parks, museums, and public squares, among other sites, audiences are engaged in the intimate, up-close experience of Brown’s choeography through specially chosen excerpts from the repertory.

• Figure 8 (1974)
• Floor of the Forest (1970)
• For M.G.: The Movie (1991)
• Geometry of Quiet (2002)
• Group Primary Accumulation (1973)
• I'm going to toss my arms- if you catch them they're yours (2011)
• Leaning Duets I (1970)
• L’Amour au théâtre (2009)
• Newark (Niweweorce) (1987)
• Opal Loop / Cloud Installation #72503 (1980)
• PRESENT TENSE (2003)
• Raft Piece (1973)
• Roof Piece (1971)
• Set and Reset (1983)
• Spanish Dance (1973)
• Sticks (1973)

The Company recently reconstructed three pivotal works that accentuate Brown’s profound connection to music. In Groove and Countermove (2000), whether engaged in bold unison phrases or catapulting each other through the air, the dancers create an intriguing environment, at once easy-going and vitally expressive, to the progressive jazz sounds by Dave Douglas. For Geometry of Quiet (2002), Brown matched the poignancy and delicacy of the haunting ute of Salvatore Sciarrino with choreography that implies a personal, emotional intimacy. L’Amour au théâtre (2009), features intricate and intensely athletic partnering that mirrors the airy ight of the music. A beautiful collage of pre-classic dance forms inspired by Jean-Philippe Rameau’s baroque opera “Hippolyte et Aricie”.

• Geometry of Quiet (2002)
• Groove and Countermove (2000)
• L’Amour au théâtre (2009)