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SPRING 2003

Trisha Brown Honored

Trisha Brown was honored with the National Medal of Art, the highest award given to artists by the US. Presented by President Bush on March 6, 2003, the award honors Ms. Brown’s lifetime of achievement in choreography and her outstanding contributions to our nation’s cultural wealth. Later this year, Trisha Brown will be the recipient of an honorary degree from Wilson College and will be the guest of honor at The Danspace Project’s Annual Gala Benefit. Congratulations Trisha!

Trisha Brown’s Latest Work In Progress

Upon the successful completion and lauded presentation of Winterreise, an evening length work set to Franz Shubert’s song-cycle, Ms. Brown is returning to abstract choreography. Trisha Brown is hard at work on a new piece for six dancers that will bring together her work with music and her association with the visual arts. She has invited her admired friend Elizabeth Murray to create a set and costumes for the new work. The two artists have long followed each others work and are discussing ideas about the collaboration, and choreography that will honor the strong element of shape in Ms. Murray’s art. Color will be an important element and Ms. Murray envisions a set that will reflect changing choreographic tones with color variation. Ms. Brown and her Musical Director, Pedja Muzijevic, have selected a Sciarrino piano score as the musical ingredient for this collaborative project. Mr. Muzujevic who also worked with Trisha Brown before as the pianist for Winterreise. He will also perform the piano music live at the premiere in Cannes—scheduled for December 2003—and at the New York premiere the following season.

"Set and Reset" Recognized as a Masterpiece by the French

The landmark Trisha Brown choreography "Set and Reset" will become a part of a new program launched by the French Minister of National Education. Students planning to pursue careers in the arts will focus on artistic practice and cultural theory. The program for dance, designed by a group of educators and professionals, is based on specific works from the "patrimonial and contemporary repertory." The program has identify three 20th Century masterpieces for study during the students' final year: Trisha Brown's "Set and Reset," Vaslav Nijinsky's "L'Apres midi d'un Faune" and Merce Cunningham's "Changing Steps."

Set & Reset/Reset in Colorado and London

Set and Reset/Reset is quickly becoming the most popular restaging residency project TBDC offers to universities and schools around the world through its Education and Outreach program. Directed by former Company members, students learn the quintessential Trisha Brown movement of “Set and Reset”, along with elements of the choreographic process used to build the dance. Students create a new, unique version of the dance through which they are challenged as dancers and improvisers, and develop a sense of composition. The “Set and Reset/Reset” project moves beyond the traditional restaging project, allowing students to step inside the choreographic mind of Ms. Brown.
TBDC and the London Contemporary Dance School have teamed up for Set and Reset/Reset: London. Two repertory projects are in the works with the first occurring this spring. Working with former Company member, Lance Gries, third year students will restage “Set and Reset,”and perform the work July 7-12 at The Place in London. Next fall, members of the post-graduate company will restage the work and tour their version throughout the UK. The University of Colorado has applied for funding from the NEA’s National College Choreographic Initiative to support Set and Reset/Reset: Colorado. Former Company member and UC alum, Shelley Senter, will lead the student workshops. A “Set and Reset/Reset” project is in the planning stages for Taipei.

Dance and Art in Dialogue Tours the Country

Dance and Art in Dialogue, an exhibit that celebrates Trisha Brown’s work in the visual arts and her collaborations with major artists, opened last September at the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts. Curated by Hendel Teicher, the exhibit features set pieces, videos, pictures and Trisha’s own visual artworks to explore the deep link between Trisha Brown’s dances and the visual arts.
In all tour locations, Trisha Brown Dance Company will add live performances inside the museum to give audiences a glimpse of the movement the exhibit is built around. The ‘living exhibits’ will grow out of residency projects with local high schools and colleges where dance students will learn and then present various early works of Trisha Brown.
The exhibit, currently featured at the Tang Teaching Museum in Skidmore, NY, travels to Houston’s Contemporary Art Museum in July, comes to NYC’s New Museum in October and lastly to Seattle’s Henry Art Gallery in March ‘04. The exact tour schedule is listed on the back.

Winterreise to Tour World

Winterreise, a co-production of Lincoln Center and Trisha Brown Dance Company, will embark on an international tour with its first stop at the Holland Festival in June 2003. Following Amsterdam, Winterreise will have its London Premiere at the Barbican Centre in September.
Ms. Brown’s choreographed version of Franz Schubert’s landmark song-cycle, features baritone Simon Keenlyside and three dancers from the Trisha Brown Dance Company. The work won the hearts of audiences and critics alike during its World Premiere in New York last December. For those that missed the premiere, Winterreise will be reprised in New York at the Mostly Mozart Festival in July-August 2003. TBDC invites all patrons and friends to experience the work Jack Anderson of the New York Times named his favorite choreography of 2002. Current tour locations include: Holland, London, Newcastle, Luzerne, Brussels, Vienna, and possibly Sydney & Melbourne.

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