PRESENT TENSE, by Nan Melville, 2005
Trisha Brown Dance Company
Four Decades of Dance
October 23, 24 & 25 * 8:00 p.m.
An icon of contemporary dance, Trisha Brown has consistently pushed the limits of choreography, creating some of the most compelling and visually powerful work of the past four decades—-from her early site-specific dances that took place on rooftops and down walls, to the fluid, precise movement of her more recent work. On the program at The Dance Center is PRESENT TENSE (2003), featuring breathtaking lifts and raucous partnering that is distinctly Trisha Brown. Foray Forêt (1990) is a collaboration with Robert Rauschenberg in which dancers leap into the air, nearly colliding with one another in a breathtaking sequence dubbed “turnstile,” featuring live accompaniment by a local marching band playing outside the theatre walls. Also on the program is If you couldn’t see me (1994), a haunting and seductive solo, and Accumulation (1971), a study of gestural repetition.
SPECIAL EVENT
Student Restaging
Saturday, October 25 * 5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public
The Dance Center presents a student restaging of Set and Reset/Reset, a variation on Set and Reset, the masterpiece that solidified Trisha Brown’s international reputation as a leader in abstract choreography.
Mariah Maloney, a seven-year veteran dancer and instructor with the Trisha Brown Dance Company will be in residence at The Dance Center this fall, teaching students Brown’s trademark silky and sequential core movement sequences that define her signature work.
OTHER EVENTS
DanceMasters Class, led by Trisha Brown
Tuesday, October 21 * 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Lou Conte Dance Studio at the Hubbard Street Dance Center
1147 W. Jackson
This master class offers the opportunity to work on body alignment and fundamentals that develop a dancer’s ease in movement, use of weight, clarity of initiation, and anatomical awareness. These movement principals are integral to exploring the range and detail of Trisha Brown’s movement style, and developing greater physicality for any dance form. Students will learn a dance phrase from Trisha Brown Dance Company’s repertory. more info...
Post-Performance Discussion
Thursday, October 23
Free and open to ticket holders
Pre-Performance Talk with Trisha Brown
Friday, October 24 * 7:00 p.m.
Free and open to ticket holders
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The Dance Center’s presentation of Trisha Brown Dance Company is funded, in part, by the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation and the Performing Arts Fund, a program of Arts Midwest funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional contributions from General Mills Foundation, Land O’Lakes Foundation and the Illinois Arts Council.