As iconic as she was prolific, Trisha Brown spent decades dancing at the boundary between the everyday and ecstatic, between the body at rest and in motion. Yet her early works—created and performed in her SoHo loft at the height of late-1960s experimentation—are rarely, if ever, seen.
In this landmark retrospective triptych, her peerless company performs Ballet (1968), one of Brown’s first experiments with rope walking, created two years before the iconic work Man Walking Down the Side of a Building (1970). Then, the Peter Zummo Ensemble performs Zummo’s original score for Working Title (1985), another of Brown’s early engagements with suspended bodies and a precursor to Lateral Pass (1985). The evening closes with Pamplona Stones (1974), a duet originally created and performed by Brown and collaborator Sylvia Palacios Whitman.
Part of the Next Wave Festival 2018
