Two back-to-back weeks of TBDC Intensive classes at New York City Center.

Details on teachers, times, content and fees can be viewed on our 2012-13 Season Calendar.

Red Bean Studios
320 West 37th Street, 7th Floor
(Between 8th and 9th Avenues)

6:30 - 8:30 PM

$20 per class
$75 for 5-class card ($15 per class)

These two-hour classes explore the detail and rigor of Trisha Brown's movement style as approached by her past and current company.

TBDC is reconstructing Astral Converted (1991) for performances at the Park Avenue Armory's Drill Hall.

Click here to learn more and buy tickets!

An adaptation of Astral Convertible (1989), Astral Converted (1991) has visual and costume design by Robert Rauschenberg and original music by John Cage. Rauschenberg’s metal frame towers, restored for this production, house the lights and sound system and are built from automotive supplies. The towers are activated by motion sensors to detect the dancers and respond to their movement. At once serene and highly physical, Astral Converted is the culminating piece in Trisha’s relentlessly athletic Valiant Series.

TBDC's Weekly Wednesday Class format gives students a chance to learn about Trisha’s movement style and philosophies from the dancers with whom she worked directly over multiple generations. In this unique series, every teacher brings their own meaningful interpretations and insights from their time with Trisha.

To increase the exchange and dialogue with our students, we have launched a Tumblr site just for TBDC's NYC education (Wednesday Classes, Intensives, Workshops). Follow the feed for teacher updates, repertory-related materials, class photos and videos, and student impressions. And if you take class, join the conversation by adding comments or submitting impressions to Dorothée at d.alemany@trishabrowncompany.org

http://tbdc-class.tumblr.com/

Following a residency with TBDC Choreographic Assistant and former dancer Carolyn Lucas, TBDC Archivist and former dancer Cori Olinghouse, and former TBDC dancer Laurel Tentindo, students of the New School's Eugene Lang College will present a Trisha Brown-inspired improvisation as part of their Spring Dance Production.

FRI May 4: 7:30 PM
SAT May 5: 7:30 PM
Ailey Citigroup Theater | 405 West 55th Street

Tickets Only $5! Click here to purchase.

Line Up with talking plus Motors uses Line Up (1976) as a choreographic frame to examine principles and choreographic forms from Trisha’s creative legacy (including: Set and Reset, Locus, Water Motor and Line Up, among others). The process has been to conjure some of Trisha’s impulses and strategies from over the years as resources for the students to develop their own creative practices. What has emerged is a creative dialogue between TBDC (Lucas, Olinghouse, and Tentindo) and students from the Eugene Lang College, New School for Liberal Arts.

The Spring Dance Production will feature additional professional- and student-choreographed pieces.

As part of the TBDC residency, students kept journal entries and drawings based on their investigations with Trisha's work and principles. Pictured above is student Cait Vogt's continuous line drawing of the Set and Reset phrase material.

Every Wednesday at the Red Bean Studios, 6:30-8:30pm.

February 1: Elena Demyanenko
February 8: Laurel Jenkins Tentindo
February 15: Eva Karczag
February 22: Todd Lawrence Stone
February 29: Samuel Wentz
March 7: Todd Lawrence Stone
March 14: Mariah Maloney
March 21: Leah Morrison
March 28: Tamara Riewe
April 4: Laurel Tentindo and Carolyn Lucas
April 11: Elena Demyanenko
April 18: Eva Karczag
April 25: Leah Morrison
May 2: Wendy Perron
May 9: Todd Lawrence Stone
May 16: Dai Jian
May 23: Melinda Myers
May 30: Melinda Myers

For more information about our teachers, visit our Dancers & Artistic Staff and Teacher Bio pages.

Click here to watch former TBDC dancers performing Spanish Dance (1973) as a surprise for Trisha at her 75th Birthday Celebration and Benefit Art Auction on January 27, 2012.

The performers, and their respective years as TBDC dancers, include:

• Elizabeth Garren, 1975-79
• Wendy Perron, 1975-78
• Vicky Shick, 1980-86
• Irene Hultman, 1983-88
• Lisa Kraus, 1976-82

March 3 & 4, 2012 at the Red Bean Studios
320 W 37th St, NYC 10018

Saturday (by Samuel Wentz) & Sunday (by Laurel Tentindo)
12:00-2:00pm Technique
2:00-4:00pm Repertory

$40 per day or $20 for the Technique Session only
Registration on the spot, first come first served.

For more information, please contact: d.alemany@trishabrowncompany.org

http://www.paddle8.com/forgood/TRISHA

View the works, bid online, and join us for the live auction on January 27th at 6:30pm. For more information and to reserve tickets, contact Heather at h.wigmore@trishabrowncompany.org or 646-278-6120.

Pictured: Richard Tuttle, "For John Altoon," 2011.

Join us to celebrate Trisha's 75th birthday with a benefit art auction that will help TBDC build and disseminate the Trisha Brown Archive.

Featured Artists

Laurie Anderson Cecily Brown Trisha Brown Chuck Close Dan Colen Louise Fishman Nancy Graves Adam Helms Arturo Herrera Roni Horn Jasper Johns Alex Katz Barry Le Va

Sol LeWitt Roy Lichtenstein Andrew Lord Robert Mangold Peter Moore Claes Oldenburg Robert Petersen Ellen Phelan Christopher Rauschenberg Robert Rauschenberg Analia Saban Peter Saul Matt Saunders

Richard Serra Joel Shapiro Amy Sillman Laurie Simmons Josh Smith Al Taylor Wolfgang Tillmans Richard Tuttle Kara Walker Lawrence Weiner Terry Winters Joe Zucker

Tickets start at $500. For more information or to purchase tickets, please contact Heather at h.wigmore@trishabrowncompany.org or 646-278-6120.

TBDC gratefully acknowledges its generous supporters: The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., FAIR. Trade Spirits, and Paddle8.

The 2012 Winter Intensive is a newly designed format exploring the process and forms inherent in Trisha’s body of work. Classes will focus on technique; repertory and specifically engaging with Trisha’s rich archive of multidisciplinary work to uncover new creative outlets and help students accomplish individual creative goals. Each week will offer students tools to deepen their knowledge of technical principles, compositional structure, forms, improvisation and performance. This will be achieved through classes, video showings, written materials and end of the week performances.

January 16-20
Session I: 10-12:15pm -- Technique with Sam Wentz
Session II: 1-3:15pm -- Repertory with Tamara Riewe
Session III: 3:30-5:45pm -- Building Forms with Cori Olinghouse
January 20 -- Showing at 5pm

January 23-27
Session IV: 12:30-2:45pm -- Technique & Repertory with Nick Strafaccia
Session V: 3:30-5:45pm -- Trisha’s Structures for Freedom with Laurel Tentindo
January 27 -- Showing at 5pm

For teacher bios, class descriptions, fees and other information, please visit our Calendar and scroll down to the Winter Intensive.

TBDC is looking for fulltime male dancers and apprentices!

For details, visit our Calendar and scroll down to TBDC Audition: Male Dancers.

Click HERE for documentation of Candoco Dance Company's Set and Reset/Reset restaging process, featuring former TBDC dancer Abby Yager.

More information:

• TBDC Education Programs
• Abby Yager's Teacher Bio [scroll down]
• Candoco Dance Company website

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Thanks to everyone for the continued support for and dedication to Trisha's work. Click on the links below to see who included TBDC in their 2011 dance summaries:

• The New Yorker's Culture Desk puts Roof Piece on its list of Best Dance (and Puppet) Shows of 2011.
• Time Out Chicago's 'Dance | 2011 in review' says Trisha's "mastery of composition and form...felt fresher and more timeless than ever before."

TBDC is looking for a fulltime female dancer and apprentices!

For details, visit our Calendar and scroll down to TBDC Audition: Female Dancers.

December 9, 2011 – January 25, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday December 9th 6-8PM
530 West 22nd Street

For her second solo exhibition at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., the gallery will present a selection of large-scale drawings from Trisha's It’s a Draw dance/drawing series. It’s a Draw, performed between 2002 and 2008, collapses the division between a dance performance and a work on paper by literally drawing through dance, tracing Trisha's movements with charcoal or pastel stuck between her hands and feet.

Playing with the language of Abstract Expressionism, the It’s a Draw series uses the concepts of action painting and all-over-ness literally as Trisha performs on the paper. Rather than static marks, the lines made from her movements capture that same sense of continuous motion as her dance performances. Suggesting Trisha's ghostly presence, the drawings compel the viewer to attempt to reconstruct her dance.

For additional information please contact Scott Briscoe at 212.929.2262 or scott@sikkemajenkinsco.com, or visit the Sikkema Jenkins & Co. website

You don't have to be in Rome to catch TBDC's upcoming performance at Teatro Olimpico!
We invite TBDC fans worldwide to get online and watch the performance as it is live-streamed.

Friday, October 21, 2011

2:30 PM United States, Eastern Standard Time (8:30 PM Italian time)

Live-Stream Website

Program

I'm going to toss my arms- if you catch them they're yours (2011)

Les Yeux et l'âme (2011)

Watermotor (1978)

Foray Forêt (1990)

Opal Loop/Cloud Installation #72503 (1980)

Trisha has been recognized for her accomplishments yet again, this time with a ‘Bessie’ award for Lifetime Achievement. This ‘Bessie’ – or New York Dance and Performance award – represents the first of what will become an annual honor for choreographers.

Trisha's previous 'Bessies' were awarded for Outstanding Creative Achievement in her 1983-84 and 1985-86 Seasons. Her landmark Set and Reset, created in collaboration with Robert Rauschenberg with music by Laurie Anderson, premiered in 1983.

On the decision to award Trisha with a Lifetime Achievement Award, the 'Bessie's selection committee cited “the influence of both her distinctive movement style and inquisitive choreographic drive.”

The award ceremony is to be held on October 24, 2011 at the Apollo Theater and will be hosted by Bebe Neuwirth, with a performance by students from the Harlem School of the Arts.

TBDC is back in Paris to premiere Trisha's latest creation, I'm going to toss my arms- if you catch them they're yours (2011). The Company will perform the new work at Théâtre National de Chaillot on October 5-14, 2011 and subsequently at Teatro Olimpico in Rome on October 21-22, 2011.

I'm going to toss my arms- if you catch them they're yours features:

• A set of large, industrial fans, designed by Trisha's husband and Visual Artist Burt Barr
• An original score by renowned composer and former collaborator Alvin Curran
• Lighting by former TBDC Production Manager John Torres
• Costumes by first-time collaborator Kaye Voyce

Follow TBDC on Twitter for frequent updates about the tour and Trisha's new work.

Don't miss former TBDC dancer/current TBDC teacher Brandi Norton in New York Live Arts' Dancer Crush. Brandi will dance Trisha's witty and now-legendary solo, Accumulation (1971).

• DATE/TIME: Wednesday, October 5 - Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 7:30 pm

• LOCATION: New York Live Arts | 219 West 19th Street

• MORE: To learn about Dancer Crush and purchase tickets online, click here

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Learn more about Brandi in Teacher Bios

We are thrilled to announce that Trisha has been selected as the winner of the 2011 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, one of the largest and most prestigious awards in the arts that is given annually to a person who has made an "outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind's enjoyment and understanding of life."

Congratulations, Trisha!

Gish Prize recipients have shaped the cultural landscape in drama, music, dance, art, architecture, lighting design, film and literature. They range from iconic singer/songwriter Pete Seeger, who redefined the American songbook, to writer Chinua Achebe, who put African literature on the map, to Iranian visual artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat, who gives a voice to those often left unheard. They also include visionaries like American theater director Peter Sellars, multimedia artist/musician (and Trisha Brown collaborator) Laurie Anderson and actor/director Robert Redford, who continue to make waves.

Adam Weinberg, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art; Elizabeth Streb, founder of Streb Lab for Action Mechanics; and acclaimed lighting designer Jennifer Tipton (also a longtime Trisha Brown collaborator) will gather to honor Trisha on November 2, 2011 at the Hudson Theatre, Millennium Broadway, New York City. The event will include a special performance by TBDC.

The selection committee for the 2011 Gish Prize includes the Honorable Jane Alexander, actor and former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts; Vishakha Desai, president and CEO, Asia Society; architect Elizabeth Diller; choreographer Garth Fagan and jazz musician Vijay Iyer.

For more on the Gish Prize, including a full list of past recepients, click here.