Trisha Brown Roof Piece 1973

A home version of trisha brown s roof piece no roof required communication across distance is the essential component of this 1971 dance brown s company has found.

Trisha brown roof piece 1973. The original version performed in 1971 spanned 10 blocks in lower manhattan. Tagged roof piece trisha brown. Dancers in red deployed on roofs visible from southern end of high line park simple signal like movements move from dancer to dancer. Generations of trisha brown company dancers have performed roof piece all over the world.

Brown s early works walking on the wall 1971 and roof piece 1971 were designed to be performed at specific sites. Lucas welcomes the generational shift. In 1970 brown cofounded the grand union an experimental dance collective and formed the trisha brown dance company. Brown studied modern dance at mills college in oakland california b a 1958.

You and your friends. Compromised improvised gestures more or less stationary which were initiated at 53 wooster copied by the next in line and so on. As a steward of brown s legacy ms. The dance which took place in the compressed architectural space of the structure required spectators to move about the space in order to see every dancer.

3 and so on. Trisha brown dance company. Roof piece trisha brown 1973 december 3 2008 6 01 pm. Tbdc is a post modern dance company dedicated to the performance and preservation of the work of founding artistic director and choreographer trisha brown.

Established in 1970 tbdc has toured throughout the world presenting the work teaching and building relationships with audiences and artists alike. Room roof piece was conceived produced and edited by amanda kmett pendry and jamie scott. Visual art and performance art. Trisha brown american dancer and choreographer whose avant garde and postmodernist work explores and experiments in pure movement with and without the accompaniments of music and traditional theatrical space.

Moments from a performance of trisha brown s roof piece at the getty center on april 6 2013. 12 dancers placed on roofs covering a 10 block area. Roof piece on the high line in this short film director babette mangolte captures trisha brown s roof piece as it was performed in 2011 on the high line in new york city.