Photo © Julia Nason, 2009

REPERTORY/ Locus

Locus (1975) is an 18 minute quartet of continuous action. That action is based on an ordered distribution of movement with a compartmentalized space. Locus is organized around 27 points located on an imaginary cube of space slightly larger than the standing figure in a stride position.  The points were correlated to the alphabet and a written statement, 1 being A, 2, B... I made four sections each three minutes long that move through, touch, look at, jump over, or do something about each point in the series, either one point at a time or clustered.  The dance does not observe front, it revolves.  The cube base is multiplied to form a grid of five units wide and four deep.  There are opportunities to move from one cube base to another without distorting the movement.  By exercising these options, we travel. - Trisha Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue, 1961-2001, Teicher, Hendel

CHOREOGRAPHY:

Trisha Brown

SOUND:

No sound

Visual Design:

Trisha Brown

COSTUME:

Sleeveless leotards and pants

LENGTH:

18 minutes

Performers:

1 or 4 dancers

ORIGINAL CAST:

Trisha Brown, Elizabeth Garren, Judith Ragir, Mona Sulzman

NY PREMIERE:

541 Broadway, New York, NY, April 6, 1975