Trisha Brown Roof Piece

In 1970 brown cofounded the grand union an experimental dance collective and formed the trisha brown dance company.

Trisha brown roof piece.

She and some colleagues scattered themselves across the water tower capped roofs of soho and played a dance version of. Brown s early works walking on the wall 1971 and roof piece 1971 were designed to be performed at specific sites. The dance which took place in the compressed architectural space of the structure required spectators to move about the space in order to see every dancer. Roof piece uses distance to transcend the boundaries of a room a stage and the eye of a single viewer.

Room roof piece was conceived produced and edited by amanda kmett pendry and jamie scott. Established in 1970 tbdc has toured throughout the world presenting the work teaching and building relationships with audiences and artists alike. Roof piece is a work that brown who died in 2017 first performed in 1971. Tbdc is a post modern dance company dedicated to the performance and preservation of the work of founding artistic director and choreographer trisha brown.

This version travels from new south wales all the way to brooklyn. Visual art and performance art. Roof piece on the high line in this short film director babette mangolte captures trisha brown s roof piece as it was performed in 2011 on the high line in new york city. Her roof piece 1973 in new york city employed 15 dancers each on a different manhattan roof following each other s sequence of movements while the audience watched from another roof.

Generations of trisha brown company dancers have performed roof piece all over the world. La pieza consistía en la emisión de una serie de movimientos improvisados por parte del performer situado en el primer edificio los cuales debían ser imitados por cada uno de los bailarines de modo que estos fueran trasladándose de un cuerpo a otro y de un tejado a otro hasta llegar al final de la cadena.