Essay by Steve Paxton: Notes on a video of a Glacial Decoy rehearsal led by Lisa Kraus and Diane Madden with the Stephen Petronio Company

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Editor’s Note: When invited to take part in the Trisha Brown: In the New Body project, Steve Paxton chose to write about how Trisha Brown’s movement is transmitted from one dancer to another. Brown’s Glacial Decoy has gone into the Petronio Company repertory as part of the Bloodlines project, Petronio’s homage to important works by… Read more »

Interview with Eva Karczag

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“I think the most profound way she taught me was through osmosis—watching her, sensing her . . . dancing with her.” Eva Karczag began learning Elizabeth Garren’s roles in Line Up and Locus, from her, in the winter of 1979. but it was in the summer of 1979, during the Trisha Brown Dance Company residency… Read more »

Interview with Iréne Hultman

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“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 »

Interview with Elizabeth Garren

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“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 »