Roof Piece Trisha Brown

The original version performed in 1971 spanned 10 blocks in lower manhattan.

Roof piece trisha brown. Trisha brown dance company. Generations of trisha brown company dancers have performed roof piece all over the world. Lecturas neurociencia y danza. A dance by trisha brown and a photograph by babette mangolte.

This version travels from new south wales all the way to brooklyn. 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. She and some colleagues scattered themselves across the water tower capped roofs of soho and played a dance version of. The original version performed in 1971 spanned 10 blocks in lower manhattan.

Roof piece uses distance to transcend the boundaries of a room a stage and the eye of a single viewer. Visual art and performance art. Roof piece is a work that brown who died in 2017 first performed in 1971. 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.

Tbdc is a post modern dance company dedicated to the performance and preservation of the work of founding artistic director and choreographer trisha brown. Dancers simultaneously receive and transmit movement and as the dance travels distance allows for a decomposition of the original message. Roof piece trisha brown 1971 inicio. For trisha the choreography was testing how improvised movements appear at a distance and are transformed by transmission by a succession of dancers mimicking with variation what they see and how what has been transmitted at one end is different when received at the other end.

In 1970 brown cofounded the grand union an experimental dance collective and formed the trisha brown dance company. Established in 1970 tbdc has toured throughout the world presenting the work teaching and building relationships with audiences and artists alike. Generations of trisha brown company dancers have performed roof piece all over the world. Lecturas anatomía y danza.

Brown s early works walking on the wall 1971 and roof piece 1971 were designed to be performed at specific sites. This version travels from new south wales all the way to brooklyn. Trisha brown roof piece 1971 performance work by trisha brown. Roof piece uses distance to transcend the boundaries of a room a stage and the eye of a single viewer.