Letter To Trisha from Steve Paxton

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The letter below was sent to Trisha Brown after she performed her solo If you couldn’t see me at the American Dance Festival in Durham, NC in June 1994. References which would’ve been clear to her but not to you, probably, include: Betsy Frederick, a mutual friend in Albuquerque, New Mexico; the costume, which consisted… Read more »

Carla Peterson on Trisha Brown

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In June 2015 Carla Peterson presented the Dance/USA Honors award to Trisha Brown at Dance/USA’s Annual Conference. Peterson is the director of the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography and former artistic director of New York Live Arts and Dance Theater Workshop and executive director of Movement Research. What follows are her remarks: Here are… Read more »

Essay: This choreography has a place for you by Marissa Perel

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This essay was originally printed in the program notes for the Early Works performance by Trisha Brown Dance Company at the Barnes Foundation, October 18, 2015, part of the Trisha Brown: In the New Body yearlong festival. Before the feeling of the dance ever leaves you, you stop and look at the space around the dancers’ bodies. You notice areas… 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 »

Essay: Trisha Brown by Marianne Goldberg

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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 »

Interview with Elizabeth Carpenter

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“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 »

Interview with (Re)framing Collaboration curators Brian Wallace and Matthew Feliz

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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 »