Trisha Brown Dance Company concludes “Proscenium Works” tour at BAM, Jan 28—30

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Trisha Brown Dance Company Choreography by Trisha Brown

BAM Howard Gilman House (30 Lafayette Ave) Jan 28—30 at 7:30pm Tickets start at $25

Set and Reset (1983) Music by Laurie Anderson Visual design and costumes by Robert Rauschenberg Lighting design by Beverly Emmons with Robert Rauschenberg

PRESENT TENSE (2003) Music by John Cage Visual design by Elizabeth Murray Original costumes by Elizabeth Murray, reimagined by Elizabeth Cannon Lighting design by Jennifer Tipton

Newark (Niweweorce) (1987) Music by Peter Zummo Visual design and costumes by Donald Judd Lighting design by Ken Tabachnick

Master Class Co-presented by BAM and Mark Morris Dance Center In conjunction with Trisha Brown Dance Company Jan 23 at 10am, Mark Morris Dance Center (3 Lafayette Ave) For dancers of all levels Visit BAM.org/master-classes for more information and to register Price: $25

Brooklyn, NY/Dec 16, 2015—Concluding the company's three-year retrospective “Proscenium Works, 1979—2011” tour, Trisha Brown Dance Company presents three of Brown’s iconic, postmodern masterpieces— Set and Reset which premiered at BAM in 1983 , PRESENT TENSE (2003), and Newark (Niweweorce) (1987). The engagement marks 40 years of collaboration with BAM, where the company first performed in 1976.

An icon of contemporary dance, Trisha Brown has spent her career making dances that changed and challenged the form, from her experimental work with the Judson Dance Theater Collective, to her early site-specific dances that took place on rooftops and walls, to the fluid, precise movement of her 30 years of staged works. The BAM program will offer New York audiences the opportunity to revisit three large- scale proscenium dances in Brown’s richly layered oeuvre.

The program opens with the iconic work Set and Reset, commissioned by BAM for the 1983 Next Wave Festival. Propelled by Laurie Anderson’s driving score, dancers dart and catch each other while moving into and out of Robert Rauschenberg’s translucent set, playfully exploring instinct, edge, visibility, and invisibility. Set and Reset features the fluid movement and sharply defined configurations that became a hallmark of Brown’s work and was hailed by The New York Times as “surely the most beloved and irresistible work of postmodern dance.”

Part of Trisha Brown’s Music Cycle, PRESENT TENSE (2003) is a playful musing on human connection set to piano compositions by John Cage, featuring visual design by American artist Elizabeth Murray, and lighting by Jennifer Tipton. Dancers use their bodies to bond and support each other while testing spatial relationships among themselves with spirited playfulness. Also, in collaboration with Pace Gallery and BAM, Trisha Brown Dance Company, will present Heart and Mind, an exhibition of works by Elizabeth Murray on view January—February in the Peter Jay Sharp Building. Murray's artwork is featured on the cover of 2016 Winter/Spring BAMbills.

The program will round out with Newark (Niweweorce) (1987)—Brown’s dramatic study of force and momentum, framed by a set of slowly shifting canvases by visionary artist Donald Judd and a soundscape by Peter Zummo. Best exemplifying Brown’s relentlessly athletic Valiant Series, the work pushes dancers to their physical limits while exploring gender-specific movement. Judd’s slowly rising and lowering, floor- to-ceiling, multicolored canvases split the stage in sections, adding an unpredictable drama to the choreography and resulting in one of the most striking works in the company’s repertory.

About Trisha Brown Trisha Brown (artistic director and choreographer) was born and raised in Aberdeen, WA. She graduated from Mills College in 1958, studied with Anna Halprin and taught at Reed College in Portland before moving to New York City in 1961. Instantly immersed in what was to become the post-modern phenomenon of Judson Dance Theater, her movement investigations found the extraordinary in the everyday and challenged existing perceptions of what constituted performance. In 1970, Brown formed her company and made the groundbreaking work, Man Walking Down the Side of a Building, one of many site-specific works created in, around, and hovering over the streets and buildings of her SoHo neighborhood. Her first of many collaborations with Robert Rauschenberg, Glacial Decoy premiered in 1979, followed by Set and Reset in 1983 with original music by Laurie Anderson. Brown has created nearly 100 dance works since 1961, including several . Increasingly recognized as a visual artist, her drawings have been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions including Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany, MoMA in New York, and Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Her work is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in New York.

Brown was the first woman choreographer to receive the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Other honors include the Brandeis University’s Creative Arts Medal in Dance, two John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships, a New York State Governor’s Arts Award, and the National Medal of Art. Brown was named a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France in 1988, elevated to Officier in 2000 and to Commandeur in 2004. She served on the National Council on the Arts from 1994 to 1997. She has received numerous honorary doctorates, is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was awarded the 2011 Bessie Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2011, Brown was honored with the prestigious Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize for making an “outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind’s enjoyment and understanding of life.” In 2013, she was honored with the BOMB Magazine Award, and received the 2015 Honors Award given by Dance/USA.

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