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-I Friday, October 16 at 8pm I Saturday, October 17 at 8pm Sunday, Octob~ 18 at 2pm n-1 TRISHA BROWN SON OF GONE FISHIN' (World Premiere) Choreography by Trisha Brown z Music by Robert Ashley Commissioned in part by BAM with other funding provided by the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and various private sources. GLACIAL DECOY Choreography by Trisha Brown Costumes and visual presentation by Robert Rauschenberg OPAL LOOP/CLOUD INSTALLATION #72503 Choreography by Trisha BrdWn Cloud sculpture by Fujiko Nakaya Thursday, October 29 at 8pm MUSIC + NEW RESOURCES: COMPUTERS & BEYOND THE BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIA Lukas Foss, Music Director and Conductor New works by Morris Cotel (Yetzirah); Vladimir Ussachevsky (Celebration); Morton Subotnick (Ghost Piece) and others using the latest innovations in computer, electronic valve and microtuning techniques. Friday, October 30 at 8pm Saturday, October 31 at 8pm Sunday, November 1 at 2pm LAURA DEAN TYMPANI (New York Premiere) Choreography and music by Laura Dean Scored for two grand pianos and tympani Co-commissioned by BAM, the Walker Arts Center and the American Dance Festival. DANCE Choreography and music by Laura Dean Scored for two amplified autoharps plus other works . Friday, November 6 at Spm Saturday, November 7 at 7pm Thursday, November 12 at Spm Saturday, November 14 at Spm Sunday, November 15 at 7pm SATYAGRAHA (New York Premiere) An opera in three acts by Philip Glass libretto by Constance De Jong (adapted from the Bhagavad-Gita) book by Philip Glass and Constance De Jong Brooklyn Philharmonia conducted by Christopher Keene sets and costumes by Robert Israel lighting by Richard Riddell staged by Hans Nieuwenhuis after the production by the Netherlands Opera Thursday, December 17 at Spm MUSIC + MOVEMENT THE BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIA Lukas Foss, Music Director and Conductor New Mime, modern dance and ballet, plus marionettes, featuring works by Miriam Degan (shadow play); Daryl Gray (ballet); Satoru Shimazaki and Toby Armour (modern dance) set to new music by Robert Cornman, George A. McGuire, Lukas Foss and others. Friday, December 18 at Spm Saturday, December 19 at Spm Sunday, December 20 at 2pm LUCINDA CHILDS RELATIVE CALM (U.S. Premiere) Choreography by Lucinda Childs Music by Jon Gibson Decor by Robert Wilson Commissioned by BAM. ROBERT ASHLEY is a pioneer in the development of music theater and large-scale collaborative performance forms. Landmark re- cordings such as She Was A Visitor and In Sara, Mencken, Christ co and Beethoven There Were Men and Women, point the way to new rn uses of language in a musical setting. Much of his work is dis- tinguished by unique uses of visual media. As a member of the legendary ONCE Group (1964-69) and the Sonic Arts Union (1966-76) ~ and as a soloist, he has performed throughout the United States and Europe in over 300 concerts. )> L/) Since 1975 he has developed a style of "portrait" performance in various techniques and media: Night Sport (simultaneous mono- I logues); Over the Telephone (remote/live audio installations); I The Great Northern Automobile Presence (lighting ''accompaniments" rn for other composers' music); Music with Roots in the Aether (video portraits of composers and their music); and Automatic Writing -< (closed circuit improvisations). His current work is an opera for performance and for television production, created with composer "Blue" Gene Tyranny, entitled Perfect Lives (Private Parts). He ~s collaborating with composers David Behrman and Jacques Bekaert on a multi-media performance work for television, A History of the World in Flashes, using speech in many languages with computer-controlled sound and images. DISCOGRAPHY: The Bank (from Perfect Lives/Private Parts) Lovely VR 4903 The Bar (from Perfect Lives/Private Parts) Lovely VR 4904 Interiors Without Flash Giorno Poetry Systems Christopher Columbus ... (Sonata) Lovely VR 1062 Automatic Writing Lovely VR 1002 Private Parts Lovely LML 1001 In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Where Men and Women Cramps CRSLP 6103 Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon Mainstream MS 5010 She Was A Visitor CBS Odyssey 3216 0158 TRISHA BROWN, choreographer, was born in Aberdeen, Washington, and received her BA in dance from Mills College in Oakland, California. She has taught at Mills and Reed Coll~ges, and from 1967-71 she served as Adjunct Assistant Professor at New York University. In 1975, Ms. Brown received a Guggenheim Fellowship in choreography. She has participated in the National Endowment for the Arts Dance Touring Program for four years and has received grants from the Endowment and the New York State Council on the Arts. A founding member of the Judson Dance Theater (1962) and the Grand Union (1970), Trisha Brown formalized her own company in 1970. Since its inception, the Trisha Brown company has performed annu- ally in New York City and has toured the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan. Performances have been given at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Walker Arts z Center, Festival d•Automne/Centre Georges Pompidou, Riverside Studios in London, and the Louisiana Museum in Denmark. In May 1980, the Trisha Brown company was featured in the PBS series DANCE IN AMERICA in a nationally broadcast program on post- modern dance, "Beyond the Mainstream." In the fall of 1980, WGBH-TV (PBS, Boston) completed a half-hour program on the Brown Company. In the summer of 1980, Michael Blackwood released his documentary, MAKING DANCES, which featured seven major choreographers including Trisha Brown. Among publications which discuss Ms. Brown's work is Sally Banes' TERPSICHORE IN SNEAKERS (Houghton Mifflin, 1980). I LUCINDA CHILDS, choreographer, was an original member of the c Judson Dance Theater in 1963, following graduation from Sarah Lawrence College in 1962. She received formal modern dance n training at the Merce Cunningham studio. Miss Childs formed her own dance company in 1972, which made its first appearance at z the Whitney Museum in 1973. She has collaborated as choreographer and performer with Robert Wilson and Philip Glass on the opera EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH, presented throughout Europe and at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Miss Childs has toured in Europe both with her company and as a n solo performer. Her appearances in New York include performances I of DANCE, a collaboration with Philip Glass and Sol LeWitt, which premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1980. She has also r- appeared with Robert Wilson in his two-act play, I WAS SITTING ON 0 MY PATIO THIS GUY APPEARED I THOUGHT I WAS HALLUCINATING, which un toured the United States for six months after its premiere in 1977. Since 1975, Lucinda Childs has collaborated with three film-makers to create films of three of her works, and in 1977 received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to complete the project. She has also been awarded Creative Artists Public Service grants, a Village Voice OBIE Award, National Endowment for the Arts Choreography Fellowships and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1979-80). In March, 1981, Miss Childs appeared at Marymount Manhattan College where she previewed two xections of her new full length work, RELATIVE CALM, which will premiere at BAM in December, 1981. I )> LAURA DEAN, choreographer/composer, was born and grew up on Staten c Island, N.Y. She trained with Lucas Hoving, Muriel Stuart, ;::o Norman Walker, Mia Slavenska, Francoise Martinet, Paul Sanasardo, Matt Mattox, Paul Taylor, and Merce Cunningham. )> Miss Dean has been the recipient of fellowships in choreography from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, 0 and the Creative Artists Public Service Program. Her work has been I I I supported by the New York State Council on the Arts since 1973. )> Dance and music works by Laura Dean have been commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the American Dance Festival in z Durham, N.C., Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, Minn., and the Jaffrey Ballet. Miss Dean's work for the Jaffrey Ballet, NIGHT, with a score for two grand pianos and eight dancers, premiered during the Jaffrey's 1980 fall season in New York City. Works per- formed at BAM include SPIRAL, performed in 1977, and MUSIC, which premiered in 1980. Miss Dean served on the Dance Panel of the New York State Council on the Arts during 1974 and 1975, and is currently a member of the Inter-Arts Panel of the National Endowment for the Arts. Her writing has appeared in DRAMA REVIEW, DANCE SCOPE, and CONTEMPORARY DANCE. Two of her choreographic scores were a part of the 1980 Venice Biennale. Miss Dean is listed in the 1980 and 1981 editions of WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA. At the age of 18, LUKAS FOSS was widely known as a music "wunder- kind" and was already a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied conducting with Fritz Reiner. Shortly thereafter he was taken under the wing of Serge Koussevitzky, with whom he worked at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood. Foss also studied at the Yale School of Music under Paul Hindernith, and at 23 was the youngest composer to be awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. A "renaissance" musician, Foss is equally at horne as composer, con I I ductor, teacher, and concert pianist. He has continually been at the forefront of contemporary music, yet the broad range of programs he conducts offers a fresh view of music from the renaissance, classical, and romantic periods up to the present day. He was Music Advisor and Conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony in Israel for four years, an~ has guest conducted the Berlin Philharmonic, the Leningrad Symphony, the Tokyo Philharmonic, and the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Rome, among others. In the U.S.