Photo © Alredo Anceschi, 2009

REPERTORY/ Line Up

Organized around the making, remaking, or unmaking of horizontal lines, resulting in clarity, disorder, clarity, disorder, disorder, clarity, order, disorder, and so on.
- Trisha Brown

Line Up was made by the Company through improvisation, recall, then memorization of the material derived from the instructions, “line up.”  Interspersed throughout are line dances and events (moments of organized material) that have appeared under the titles, Structured Pieces 1-4 (1973-1976). - Line Up, Program Notes, New York Public Newman Theater, New York, NY, 1978

 

CHOREOGRAPHY:

Trisha Brown

SOUND:

Verbal instructions, metronome, and Bob Dylan’s “Early Mornin’ Rain”

COSTUME:

White long-sleeved t-shirt and white cotton drawstring pants

LIGHT:

Original lighting design by Edward Effron. Redesigned by Spencer Brown in 1990.

LENGTH:

About 45 minutes

Performers:

7 dancers

ORIGINAL CAST:

Trisha Brown, Elizabeth Garren, Terry O'Reilly, Steve Paxton, Wendy Perron, Judith Ragir, Mona Sulzman

NY PREMIERE:

Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lepercq Space, Brooklyn, NY, March 10, 1977

WORLD PREMIERE:

Festival Musicales de la Sainte Baume, Aix-en-Provence, France, August 1, 1976