REPERTORY/ ACTIVE REPERTORY

Trisha Brown: In Plain Site

  • Trisha Brown: In Plain Site

    Group Primary Accumulation, 2008, Chamarande. © Agathe Pouponey.

  • Trisha Brown: In Plain Site

    ‘Wall Walk’ from Set and Reset in Dan Flavin’s Gallery at the Lenbachhaus in Munich, Germany, July 2014. Photo © Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München

  • Trisha Brown: In Plain Site

    Raft Piece. © Nina Vandenberghe, 2008

  • Trisha Brown: In Plain Site

    ‘Curl Curve Back Up’ from I’m going to toss my arms – if you catch them they’re yours at Palazzo Strozzi Courtyard, Firenze, Italy. July 2014

Program Description

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.

Proscenium Works

  • Proscenium Works

    Geometry of Quiet. Photo © Stephanie Berger

  • Proscenium Works

    Groove & Countermove. Photo © Stephanie Berger

  • Proscenium Works

    L’Amour au théâtre. © Julietta-Cervantes, 2009

Program Description

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”.