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CHOREOGRAPHY: Trisha Brown
music: Local marching band
set design: Robert Rauschenberg
costume: Robert Rauschenberg
lighting: Spencer Brown with Robert Rauschenberg
length: 28 minutes
performers: 9 dancers
original cast: Liz Carpenter, Lance Gries, Nicole Juralewicz, Kevin Kortan, Gregory Lara, Carolyn Lucas, Diane Madden, Trish Oesterling, Lisa Schmidt, Wil Swanson, David Thompson, Shelley Senter
“She keeps pulling something clean and coherent out of the off-center, out of kilter, unexpected movements we keep expecting will fall into chaos but never do.”
-Mike Steele, Star Tribune
Ms. Brown’s last collaboration with Robert Rauschenberg, remains one of the more requested works in the repertory. Foray Foręt features gold costumes and an open stage. Most notably, it is accompanied by a marching band engaged locally at each performance venue, playing John Philip Sousa music outside the walls of the theater. This piece marks the beginning of Ms. Brown’s elegant and mysterious Back to Zero cycle, in which she pulled back from external virtuosity to investigate unconscious movement.
NY PREMIERE:
City Center Theater, New York, NY, March 5, 1991
US PREMIERE:
Mershon Wexner Center, Columbus, OH, November 2, 1990
WORLD PREMIERE:
Lyon Biennale de la Danse, Lyon, France, September 22, 1990
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