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This week in New York City and next week in Seattle bring a bittersweet occasion: the last time the Trisha Brown Dance Company performs on a proscenium stage. Although the company will continue to present dances outside of the concert stage, these two weekends are an opportunity to see, once again, that Trisha Brown made […]

One afternoon last October, visitors to New York City’s Museum of Modern Art who had come to see paintings by Picasso and van Gogh stumbled upon some unexpected works: Twenty dancers, scattered throughout the museum, were performing solos by artists ranging from Martha Graham to Michael Jackson. “Musée de la danse” at New York’s Museum […]

Used in lecture-demonstrations in the mid-70s Pure Movement is a movement that has no other connotations. It is not functional or pantomimic. Mechanical body actions like bending, straightening or rotating would qualify as pure movement providing the context was neutral I use pure movement a kind of breakdown of the body’s capabilities. I also use […]

When it comes to postmodern choreography, Trisha Brown is royalty. Her half-century of work includes the exhilaratingly disorienting “equipment pieces” (as in Walking on the Wall), her beguiling mathematical structures (as in her “accumulations”), her famously liquid movement quality (see Brown’s Artist Statement for her elegant definition of “pure movement”), and her reenvisioning of dance […]

When Lance Gries invited 50 dancer friends to improvise with him for The FIFTY Project, it not only celebrated his 50th birthday, but also celebrated a rich vein of downtown dance. Videotaped moments from these 50-minute duets spread across the walls of La Mama Galleria last week. The project was blessed by Sarah Stackhouse, who […]

  This week’s archive photo is Trisha Brown in her Pamplona Stones (1974), photo by Johan Elbers. Trisha Brown is stepping down as leader of her company due to health issues, but the company plans a three-year farewell tour (similar to the Cunningham company’s Legacy Tour) and Brown’s works will continue to be licensed. This […]

Sad but true: The Trisha Brown Dance Company has announced that, because of health reasons, the two premieres on this weekend’s program at BAM will be Trisha’s last new dances. Her absence as a creator will leave a gaping hole in downtown New York as well as in the international dance world. (See my blog […]

What a great idea for Paris Opéra Ballet to put works by William Forsythe and Trisha Brown side by side in one program! All four pieces that I saw yesterday at the Palais Garnier —three by him and one by her—had been commissioned by POB in the past.    These two giants of contemporary dance […]