Brown’s early works Walking on the Wall (1971) and Roof Piece (1971) were designed to be performed at specific sites. Accumulation (1971), which is executed with the dancers on their backs, has been performed in public spaces of all kinds, including on water, with the dancers floating on rafts as they methodically work through the piece's graduated gestures. Walking on the Wall involved dancers in harnesses moving along a wall, while Roof Piece took place on 12 different rooftops over a ten-block area in New York City's SoHo, with each dancer transmitting the movements to a dancer on the nearest roof. In 1974, Brown began a residential relationship with the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN, that has continued to this day. With 1978's Accumulation with Talking plus Watermotor, a complex solo combining elements of three other pieces, she demonstrated a mental and physical virtuosity seldom seen in the dance world, then or now. Brown's rigorous structures, combined with pedestrian or simple movement styles and tongue-in-cheek humour brought an intellectual sensibility that challenged the mainstream "modern dance" mindset of this period.
Brown has continued to explore the nature of motion and to choreograph dances based on everyday movements. Her style has developed from carefully built-up, repetitive gestures to its current fluid virtuosity.
Last Updated - 26th January 2012
Date Accessed - 03/02/2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisha_Brown
Trisha Brown is a post modern choreographer who works with 'form'. Her choreography is very systematic and design-orientated. She was very interested in shapes, forms etc.
ReplyDeleteShe designed her choreography piece 'Accumulation' in 1971 in a gymnasium in New York.
Accumulation means to add something one at a time so she will do a move but build it up each time; one after the other.