FROM ALL ANGLES
Since the experimental ferment
of her time with the legendary
Judson Dance Theater in the
early 60s, Trisha Brown has
been choreographing in ways
that have changed the terms of
contemporary dance. Along with
Merce Cunningham, with whom
she led the way in pure dance
movement, Trisha Brown is cited
as an influence by many of today’s
best known choreographers.
She has collaborated with some
of the most important artists,
composers and designers over the
past 50 years, including Robert
Rauschenberg, John Cage, Donald
Judd, Mikhail Baryshnikov and
Laurie Anderson.
In 2011, Trisha Brown announced
her retirement from the dance
company she founded in 1970.
Her company paid tribute by
embarking on a mammoth
international farewell tour,
presenting her early works, her
traditional stage works and some
of the site-specific works that
had helped define her reputation.
Melbourne Festival is proud to
present the Australian leg of
this tour, in which the Trisha
Brown Dance Company perform
no fewer than 17 of her brilliant,
revolutionary, post-modernist
dances. This wide-ranging program
is rounded out with a program
of films and talks, as well as a
workshop of Brown’s Early Works
with students of the Victorian
College of the Arts, making for
a sweeping survey of one of the
most significant artists of the 20th
century.
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