Trisha Brown Roof Piece 1973

12 dancers placed on roofs covering a 10 block area.

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. Tbdc is a post modern dance company dedicated to the performance and preservation of the work of founding artistic director and choreographer trisha brown. In 1970 brown cofounded the grand union an experimental dance collective and formed the trisha brown dance company. Trisha brown dance company.

Generations of trisha brown company dancers have performed roof piece all over the world. Room roof piece was conceived produced and edited by amanda kmett pendry and jamie scott. Lucas welcomes the generational shift. You and your friends.

Dancers in red deployed on roofs visible from southern end of high line park simple signal like movements move from dancer to dancer. As a steward of brown s legacy ms. Tagged roof piece trisha brown. 3 and so on.

Established in 1970 tbdc has toured throughout the world presenting the work teaching and building relationships with audiences and artists alike. Moments from a performance of trisha brown s roof piece at the getty center on april 6 2013. Brown s early works walking on the wall 1971 and roof piece 1971 were designed to be performed at specific sites. 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.

Brown studied modern dance at mills college in oakland california b a 1958. The original version performed in 1971 spanned 10 blocks in lower manhattan. Roof piece trisha brown 1973 december 3 2008 6 01 pm. 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.

This version travels from new south wales all the way to brooklyn. 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.