Trisha Brown Roof Piece 1971

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Trisha brown roof piece 1971.

She and some colleagues scattered themselves across the water tower capped roofs of soho and played a dance version of. This version travels from new south wales all the way to brooklyn. Trisha brown roof piece 1971 performance work by trisha brown. Roof piece was recently remounted in 2011 on the high line in new york city.

Roof and fire piece. Since its debut on the rooftops of new york s soho in 1971 the work has become legend over the years as a result of photographic documentation. Generations of trisha brown company dancers have performed roof piece all over the world. The two getty center performances feature trisha brown dance company members wearing fire red costumes performing in locations spanning the entire site.

Moments from a performance of trisha brown s roof piece at the getty center on april 6 2013. Talleres semestrales material. The original version performed in 1971 spanned 10 blocks in lower manhattan. Repertory roof piece 1971 performed again and widely publicized on june 24 1973 at 420 west broadway to 35 white street new york ny.

Roof piece uses distance to transcend the boundaries of a room a stage and the eye of a single viewer. In 1970 brown cofounded the grand union an experimental dance collective and formed the trisha brown dance company. Brown s early works walking on the wall 1971 and roof piece 1971 were designed to be performed at specific sites. Dancers simultaneously receive and transmit movement and as the dance travels distance allows for a decomposition of the original message.

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. Lecturas neurociencia y danza.