Roof Piece By Trisha Brown

Roof piece is a work that brown who died in 2017 first performed in 1971.

Roof piece by trisha brown.

Roof piece uses distance to transcend the boundaries of a room a stage and the eye of a single viewer. The retrospective project the getty presents the west coast premiere of one of the acclaimed choreographer s most iconic works roof piece in two free performances on saturday april 6 2013. This version travels from new south wales all the way to brooklyn. These works were presented in non traditional settings outside of theaters such as on roof tops and the sides of buildings.

After forming her own dance company in 1970 many of trisha brown s early works used the terrain of her adoptive soho. Roof piece was first performed in 1971 in and around wooster and lafayette streets. For trisha the choreography was testing how improvised movements appear at a distance and are transformed by transmission by a succession of dancers mimicking with variation what they see and how what has been transmitted at one end is different when received at the other end. The original version performed in 1971 spanned 10 blocks in lower manhattan.

She and some colleagues scattered themselves across the water tower capped roofs of soho and played a dance version of. Generations of trisha brown company dancers have performed roof piece all over the world. Trisha brown dance company. Trisha brown set some her choreographies in the public spaces of new york city at a time of explosive experimentation in neighbourhoods such as soho and paid special attention to urban and architectural elements an approach that had an enormous influence on many contemporary artists such as gordon matta clark.

A dance by trisha brown and a photograph by babette mangolte. Brown s early works walking on the wall 1971 and roof piece 1971 were designed to be performed at specific sites. Trisha brown roof piece 1971 performance work by trisha brown.