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9/10/2003

Trisha Brown

New Museum, New York

Dance and Art in Dialogue, 1961-2001

Trisha Brown Dance Company Fall Season to be held at the New Museum

New York, NY - For more than four decades, dancer and choreographer Trisha Brown has been collaborating with some of the most celebrated visual artists, composers, and designers of our time. From October 10, 2003 - January 25, 2004, the New Museum of Contemporary Art presents Trisha Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue, 1961-2001, an interdisciplinary exhibition that highlights Brown's development as a dancer and choreographer, and her collaborations with visual artists Robert Rauschenberg, Nancy Graves, Fujiko Nakaya, Donald Judd, and Terry Winters. Trisha Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue, 1961-2001 is co-organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy and the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College and curated by Hendel Teicher. New Museum Curator Trevor Smith installed and coordinated the exhibition.

Unique to the New Museum presentation of the exhibition will be the first New York showing of Brown's drawings titled It's a Draw. Completed this year, Brown made these two drawings by putting charcoal between her toes as she danced on large sheets of paper. This will be the first New York showing of these works which drew much acclaim last year in London and Philadelphia.

The Trisha Brown Dance Company (TBDC) will perform it's entire 2003-2004 season as part of the exhibition at the New Museum. The Company, as well as several student groups, will perform a selection of Brown's work from the early 1970s, providing a regular live performance component to complement the exhibition. The complete schedule of performances is below.

Trisha Brown, the most widely acclaimed choreographer to emerge from the post-modern era, first came to public notice when she began showing her work with the Judson Dance Theater in the 1960s. This experimental group, formed around dancer Robert Dunn and including Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, Simone Forte, Lucinda Childs, and Carolee Schneemann, united dancers with musicians, visual artists, writers, and filmmakers in the creation of performance works that sought to erase the distinction between art and daily life. The Judson Dance Theater, inspired by the spontaneity and anarchistic qualities of the art happenings of the 1960s and the music of composer John Cage, was the crucible for performers like Trisha Brown.

In the 1960s and early 1970s, Brown created numerous performance pieces for which she designed the costumes, props, and set elements. These works were often performed only once and in untraditional settings such as churches, museums, and on rooftops around SoHo. While many of these works were entirely devised by Brown, others such as "Homemade", 1965, in which she danced with a projector playing a film by Robert Whitman strapped to her back, were created with other artists.

In the late 1970s, Brown began her extensive collaboration with visual artists such as Donald Judd, Robert Rauschenberg, and Nancy Graves, and composers, including Laurie Anderson, John Cage, Robert Ashley, and Alvin Curran. Many of these collaborative works are now considered classics of post-modern dance as well as key expressions of intermedia arts. Among them are: "Set and Reset", 1983, with music by Anderson and costumes and sets by Rauschenberg; "Lateral Pass", 1985, with sets by Graves and music by Peter Zummo; "Newark", 1987, with sets and sounds by Judd; and "Astral Converted", 1991, with sets by Rauschenberg and music by Cage.

Trisha Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue, 1961-2001, features paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, sets, costumes, models, and video and sound installations that were created for specific works by Brown. Organized into six sections, the exhibition opens with Brown's early projects of the 1960s and early 1970s, followed by a section each on her work with Rauschenberg, Judd, Graves, Nakaya, and Winters. The New Museum will be exhibiting several works that have not been shown previously as part of this exhibition.

Works in the exhibition highlight seminal collaborations such as the Donald Judd designed stage set for Brown's production of "Son of Gone Fishin'", 1981. Judd had a long-standing interest in dance and readily accepted this challenge, which allowed him to consider the space of the stage as a shifting sculpture shaped by color and movement. Working in his characteristically Minimalist style, Judd created a series of five blue and green drop curtains upstage, which took a variety of positions during the dance.

For "Lateral Pass", 1985, Brown collaborated with Nancy Graves, who created the sets and costumes. This was her first and only work for the stage, and Graves took a visionary approach, designing large, sculptural masses that interacted with the dancers. Brown responded by resuming her early interest in flying, hoisting a dancer into the air with the aid of a harness. In this way, the outlandish set and costumes were matched by choreography that pushed the dancers to approach their physical limits.

In addition to the sets created for Brown's performances, the exhibition includes numerous works related to the collaborations. Brown's drawings for choreography, as well as historical photographs, document Brown's development as a choreographer. Several new drawings by Trisha Brown will be shown for the first time as part of Dance and Art in Dialogue.

Over the last forty years, Trisha Brown has investigated the fundamental characteristics of movement-gravity, weightlessness, duration, sequence, and repetition-in her dance. She has questioned the relationships between the audience and performer, the viewer and the viewed, the everyday and the exceptional, and the perceptual and the visceral. The collaborations with visual artists in Dance and Art in Dialogue highlight one of the many ways that Brown stretched the limits of her genre.

Catalogue
A full-color catalogue documenting all of Brown's choreographic works from 1961 to the present accompanies the exhibition. The catalogue, edited by Hendel Teicher, includes essays by curator Hendel Teicher; art historians Maurice Berger and Klaus Kertess; dance historians/critics Deborah Jowitt, Marianne Goldberg, and Laurence Louppe; opera historian Guillaume Bernardi; colleagues and fellow performers Yvonne Rainer and Steve Paxton; and short texts by dancers Stephen Petronio, Merce Cunningham, and Diane Madden. Brown has written an essay for the catalogue that brings together a number of her historical texts such as "Skymap" (1969) and "Accumulation with Talking Plus Water Motor" (1979). The book is published by The Addison Gallery of American Art and distributed by The MIT Press.

Funding
Trisha Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue, 1961-2001 is sponsored by Altria Group, Inc., the parent company of Kraft Foods Inc., Philip Morris International and Philip Morris USA. For more than four decades, Altria companies have provided sustained and wide-ranging support of the arts and arts organizations around the world, including the New Museum since 1985.

Additional support has been provided by Melva Bucksbaum/Raymond Learsy.

The exhibition and publication are made possible by a major gift from Oscar Tang, in memory of Frances Young Tang (Abbot Academy, Class of 1957; Skidmore College, Class of 1961). Additional support has been generously provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., the Fifth Floor Foundation, J. Mark Rudkin, and the Sun Hill Foundation. The recreation of Opal Loop/Cloud Installation #72503 by Fujiko Nakaya is supported by the Asian Cultural Council.

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Public Programs

Thursday, October 16, 2003 6:30-8PM Conversations with Artists
Conversation between Trisha Brown and curator Hendel Teicher

Thursday, November 6, 2003 6:30-8PM Critical Voices Series

A panel discussion moderated by Lisa Phillips with Klauss Kertess, writer/curator; Wendy Perron, New York editor of Dance Magazine; and Elizabeth Kendall, dance critic historian, offering personal perspectives on the work of Trisha Brown.

Trisha Brown Live on Broadway
Incorporating presentations by Sarah Lawrence College Dance Students, Dancewave's Kids Company, Hunter College Dance Program Students, and students from the Trisha Brown Studio, and featuring performances by the Trisha Brown Dance Company, the performance series will reacquaint art veterans with the roots of Brown's work with experimental visual artists while providing a strong historical basis for newcomers to her work.

Trisha Brown Dance Company
Continuous performances of "Floor of the Forest" (1970), "Accumulation" (1971), "Spanish Dance" (c.1973), "Group Primary Accumulation" (1973), "Spiral" (1974), & "Brooms" from "Astral Converted" (1991)
October 30, November 20, January 15 (Thursdays, 6:30PM-8:00PM)

Dancewave's Kids Company
"Floor of the Forest" (1970)
October 26, November 2 & 9 (Sundays, 1PM-1:30PM)

Sarah Lawrence College Dance Students
"Spanish Dance" (c.1973) & "Sololos" (1976)
November 1, 8, 15 & 22 (Saturdays, 1PM and 2PM)
Running time approximately 15 minutes; performance to be repeated 2 times

Trisha Brown Studio Students
"Group Primary Accumulation" (1973) & "Brooms" from "Astral Converted" (1991)
December 6, 13 & 20 (Saturdays, 1PM and 2PM)
Running time approximately 25 minutes; performance to be repeated 2 times.

Hunter College Dance Program Students
"Group Primary Accumulation" (1973) & "Eights" from "Line Up" (1976)
January 17 & 24 (Saturdays, 1PM and 2PM)
January 22, 6PM and 7PM
Running time approximately 20 minutes; performance to be repeated 2 times.

About the Trisha Brown Dance Company
The Trisha Brown Dance Company has been presenting the work of Ms. Brown since 1970, when she left the Judson Dance Theater to work with her own group of dancers. Ms. Brown's choreography is celebrated for its consistent inventiveness, intelligence, and willingness to explore new forms. Among her creations are solos, small-group works, major evening-length works, and fully staged operas. Ms. Brown's influence on younger dancers and her collaborations with visual artists and musicians have made her work known and admired in the worlds not only of dance, but also of art and music. The company of nine dancers tours worldwide for some twenty weeks each year, including its New York seasons.

Trisha Brown is the first woman choreographer to receive the coveted MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and has been awarded many other honors including five fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and two John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships.

The Trisha Brown Dance Company's participation in this exhibit has been generously underwritten by The Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston and The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, with additional funds from The Nathan Cummings Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Charles Engelhard Foundation, and The Howard Gilman Foundation. Performances by the Trisha Brown Dance Company are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and supported, in part, by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

For press inquiries about the Trisha Brown Dance Company and Trisha Brown, please contact Jeanne Collins & Associates, New York City, 646-486-7050

About the New Museum of Contemporary Art
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1977 and located in the heart of Soho, is the premier destination for contemporary art in New York City. With an annual schedule of dynamic exhibitions, the Museum presents the most innovative and experimental work from around the world. Debate and discussion about contemporary culture are encouraged through a broad range of educational programs, publications, performances, and new media initiatives. The New Museum recently announced plans to build a new, 60,000 square foot facility at 235 Bowery.

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