Trisha Brown Dance Company

As you consider contributing this year to the Trisha Brown Dance Company, please know that your gift will be invaluable to helping us preserve and keep alive the work of Trisha Brown for years to come. As a thank you for any donation of $250+, we will send you a limited-edition Trisha Brown Dance Company poster. The posters are from the personal collection of Trisha Brown that cover three decades of work (from 1966 to 1986). To claim your poster, please click on the donate... button on our profile page or follow the below link to make your contribution today. https://www.paypal.com/donate A member of our staff will then follow up to confirm your gift and poster, and to gather your preferred delivery details. Marc Crousillat and Leah Ives performing Leaning Duets I (1970); Stephanie Berger, 2021

This year has been an exciting time of renewal and innovation for TBDC. Despite the shutdown, the Company has moved forward in 2021 with an exciting mix of in-person and virtual performances. Unfortunately, it was not possible for us to plan for a 2021 gala, which would usually take place around this time. We ask that in lieu of your gala ticket purchase or donation, you may consider contributing to TBDC. Your gift will be instrumental in providing the Company with the fund...s needed to continue to develop both our in-person and virtual programming, expanding the accessibility of experiencing the work of Trisha Brown. You can find the Donate button on our profile page or follow this link. https://www.paypal.com/donate Cecily Campbell performing "Locus" (1975); Stephanie Berger

There’s still time to register for our [Virtual] Summer Intensive! June 21-25 | Locus (1975) with Eva Karczag and Shelley Senter June 28-July 2 | Glacial Decoy (1979) with Cecily Campbell and Jamie Scott... $160 for 1-week $260 for 2-weeks Head to the link below to learn more and register! https://trishabrowncompany.org/education/intensives.html Trisha Brown demonstrating the points in Locus in a Lecture Demonstration, 1979. Melinda Myers and Tamara Riewe performing Glacial Decoy, 2009; Video courtesy BAM Hamm Archives. Marc Crousillat performing Locus, 2017; Nel Shelby/Brittany Pace. #trishabrown #tbdcedu

Be sure to join TBDC Alumni Melinda Myers for the LAST THREE [Virtual] Company Classes of the season, June 16, 23 & 30 from 10:30AM-12PM EDT. To learn more and register, follow the link below! https://movementresearch.org/event/15288 #trishabrown #TBDCedu #movementresearch #melindamyers

Our first in-person performance in over a year was a success at @wavehill! After two days of cancellations due to stormy weather, we were able to perform under a cloudless, sun soaked sky. Thank you to everyone who made it out, or tried to! Thank you @sioburke for your writing! Photos by @ioulex. Link in bio for full article. #trishabrown

ON THIS DAY June 11, 1974 Pamplona Stones, a duet originally created and performed by Trisha Brown and collaborator Sylvia Palacios Whitman, premiered at 383 West Broadway in New York. The work was only performed a few times in 1974 and 1975, until it was recently reconstructed by Cori Olinghouse with performers Leah Ives and Amanda Kmett’Pendry in 2018.... In Trisha’s words- I made ‘Pamplona Stones’ because I've been doing this very austere, structured work for the past three years. I don't know how to say it other than to say that. I have not allowed myself to...you see, I've really been working with strict discipline and logic for a long time. Well, ‘Pamplona’ has no logical structure, no form...It's permission. I mean, it's what one does after they've been holding themselves in. - Trisha Brown, 1974. Video Courtesy Walker Art Center #trishabrown #sylviapalacioswhitman

In this second clip from our 2021 [Virtual] Winter Intensive, each group put together a Zoom form of Solo Olos (1976) with participants making individual contributions and spontaneous compositional choices.

Thank you so much to all who participated in our 2021 [Virtual] Winter Intensive last week! Led by company members Kimberly Fulmer and Amanda Kmett’Pendry, dancers from all across the globe joined in learning Solo Olos (1976). Throughout the week they had the opportunity to improvise, create and compose, as well as have a conversation with Elizabeth Garren and Wendy Perron, original dancers in "Solo Olos". In this first clip from the workshop, the dancers are showing their Spill phrases built from a set of typewritten instructions by Trisha.

Our [Virtual] Company classes begin again tomorrow, January 13th from 10:30AM to 11:45AM EST. TBDC Alum Mariah Maloney will be teaching the first 3 weeks of classes, from January 13th to 27th. To learn more and to register, follow the link below. https://movementresearch.org/classes #trishabrown #TBDCedu #movementresearch #mariahmaloney... Photo credit SEK

There are only a few spots left for our 2021 [Virtual] Winter Intensive! Register now to reserve your place. January 11-15, 2021 11am-3:30pm EST; Monday - Friday Virtually via Zoom... Price: $160 Led by TBDC dancers Kimberly Fulmer and Amanda Kmett’Pendry, the days will begin with class, tracing through ideas in Trisha’s work and preparing everyone to dance Solo Olos (1976). An ease of the joints: folding, straightening, absorbing, will be a focus of the physical practice that allows for the complexity of the compositional structure to arise. Participants will be learning and creating from the three different phrases, known forwards and backwards, that make up the work: Main, Branch and Spill. https://trishabrowncompany.org/education/intensives.html

As 2020 comes to an end, and as we close the Trisha Brown Dance Company’s 50th anniversary this year, please consider contributing to support our continued recovery and the work we have planned for 2021 and beyond. We are proud of the amazing artists we have worked with, the ability of our programming team to adapt our work to the virtual space, and our community for their dedication and support over the past nine months. As a thank you to you please enjoy this behind-the sce...nes footage from rehearsals of Foray Forêt, with commentary from Trisha Brown describing her inspiration for and development of the piece. None of what we do would be possible without the support of individuals like you who donate and provide us with the resources to build great artistic experiences. Your donation, at any amount, will have an impact and be used fully towards the creation of our work both virtually -- and in person -- in the year ahead. Thank you for all your support and best wishes for the new year, The Trisha Brown Dance Company https://vimeo.com/493442257

Today is the final day to receive the Early Bird Discount for our 2021 [Virtual] Winter Intensive! Focusing on Solo Olos (1976), a defining work from an earlier cycle in Trisha Brown’s repertory, the TBDC 2021 Winter Intensive will be led by Kimberly Fulmer and Amanda Kmett’Pendry. https://trishabrowncompany.org/education/intensives.html... Trisha Brown, Elizabeth Garren, Lisa Kraus, Nina Ludborg and Mona Sulzman in Solo Olos (1976); 541 Broadway, NY Video used courtesy of David Gigliotti

This weekend, December 19-20, Cecily Campbell will be teaching a workshop, featuring excerpts from Locus (1975) and Opal Loop / Cloud Installation #72503 (1980). Part of the 5 continents series (Towards Vivencia), each month a workshop was led by companies from a different continent, growing the world smaller. Preceding TBDC, workshops were conducted from Asia, Europe and Africa by Beijing Dance Theater, Akram Khan Dance and Vuyani Dance Theatre. For more information and to register, visit their website. https://towardsvivencia.com/the-5-continents-series Cecily Campbell, Marc Crousillat, Tara Lorenzen and Jamie Scott in Opal Loop / Cloud Installation #72503 (1980); OZ Arts 2015 Nashville, TN

Join TBDC dancer Jamie Scott Wednesdays December 9th and 16th for the last two [Virtual] Company Classes of the year, hosted by @movementresearch! 10:30-11:45AM EST Class capacity is limited. Register today! #trishabrown #TBDCedu #movementresearch... Newark (Niweweorce) (1987) Photo by Yi-Chun Wu; BAM; Brooklyn, NY 2013