“Working with Trisha Brown was like learning to bicycle: once a Trisha Brown dancer, always a Trisha Brown dancer. The dance, her dance, never leaves you completely—you can pick it up again and again.” Iréne Hultman was a dancer for Trisha Brown Dance Company from 1983 to 1988. She was later a rehearsal director (2006–2009)… Read more »
Reprinted from Fifty Contemporary Choreographers published by Routledge, edited by Martha Bremser. Used by permission of the author. Trisha Brown’s dances are shaped by dreams of levitation, by geometry, enigma, physics, by memory, mathematics and geography, by language. Her gestural imagery challenges perception of the moving body, making the impossible appear possible. Imagining that dancers… Read more »
“Trisha created a world I never wanted to leave.” Mariah Maloney was a dancer with the Trisha Brown Dance Company from February 14, 1995, to December 12, 2002, and has since has served on its faculty. Q: What was your first encounter with Trisha Brown’s work? Mariah Maloney: On March 9th, 1991 I was an… Read more »
“With Trisha, movement, any movement, was a seduction from the unknown, an invitation to see what could/would happen if. “ Elizabeth (liz) Carpenter was a dancer with the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 1989 to 1995. Q: What was your first encounter with Trisha Brown’s work? Elizabeth Carpenter: I was dancing with the Joe Goode Performance… Read more »
As part of Trisha Brown: In the New Body, drawings, writings, and other works by Trisha Brown and her collaborators—including by Robert Rauschenberg, Elizabeth Murray, and Nancy Graves—are displayed in an exhibition organized by Bryn Mawr College’s department of Special Collections. Trisha Brown: (Re)framing Collaboration An Exhibition of the Art of Trisha Brown and Her… Read more »
“She made excellent art for decades. That’s worth remembering.” Hope Mohr was an apprentice and then company member with the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 2001 to 2005. Q: What was your first encounter with Trisha Brown’s work? Hope Mohr: I first saw Trisha’s work when I saw Mariah Maloney perform Trisha’s solo Rage and… Read more »
“When I watched Trisha dance, be it on video archived early works or watching her do If you couldn’t see me from the wings, no matter what ‘form’ it was she was attempting, I saw how personal it was for her.” Choreographer, dancer, and teacher Stacy Spence was a dancer in the Trisha Brown Dance… Read more »
“Almost nothing in my modern dance training prepared me technically for the movement vocabulary Trisha was developing.” Elizabeth Garren danced for (and with) Trisha Brown from May 1975 through December 1979. Q: What was your first encounter with Trisha Brown’s work? And was that when you first connected with her work? Elizabeth Garren: When… Read more »
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