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Welcome our new Board Members!

Join us in welcoming new Board Members, Tara Lorenzen and Stacy Spence! Both former dancers with the Trisha Brown Dance Company, we are thrilled to enter this new chapter of the company with their support. Learn more about them below.


Tara Lorenzen is originally from the hills of West Virginia. Upon graduation from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance, she became a member of the Repertory Understudy Group under Merce Cunningham where she created an original role in EyeSpace as well as reconstructing earlier works such as Rune and Summerspace. She went on to join the Stephen Petronio Dance Company from 2008-2011. She has worked with Kimberly Bartosik, Christine Elmo, Shen Wei Dance Arts, Anna Sperber, Jodi Melnick, Beth Gill (Electric Midwife Bessie award for Outstanding Production 2011), and Maria Hassabi (Plastic Bessie award for Outstanding Production 2016). Since 2011, Tara has performed and taught master classes for the Trisha Brown Dance Company all over the world. Recently she assisted in the reconstruction of Trisha’s O zlozony/O composite (originally created for the Paris Opera Ballet) at the Pennsylvania Ballet and taught Set and Reset/Reset at La Manufacture in Lausanne, Switzerland, as well as the Centre National de la Danse in Pantin, France. Tara is currently a Visiting Associate Professor and Director of Dance at Bard College, where she has taught all levels of technique classes, created new course content in multidisciplinary practices, and coordinated partnerships between American Dance Festival, Gibney Dance, and Villa Albertine. She is a Cunningham Technique certified teacher and continues to investigate the role of John Cage’s works in all artistic practices.

Stacy Matthew Spence is a New York City based choreographer, teacher, and dancer. Stacy’s choreography has been commissioned by The High Line in collaboration with visual artist Ronny Quevedo, Danspace Project, The New School, Ishmael Houston-Jones’s Platform 2012: Parallels for Danspace Project, Tisch School of the Arts and London Contemporary Dance School. Stacy has been honored to perform in co/motion directed by Margaret Peak as part of Jason Moranʼs Whitney Biennial: Bleed, Deborah Hayʼs Blues as part of Ralph Lemonʼs One Fine Day at The Museum of Modern Art NY and Joanna Kotze’s BIG BEATS.

Stacy had the pleasure of dancing with The Trisha Brown Dance Company from 1997-2006, was Education Director 2018-2020 and continues collaborating with the company through teaching and re-staging Trisha's work. He has taught nationally and internationally at institutions such as The New School, Juilliard, Barnard College, Tisch School of the Arts, Manhattan Marymount College, London Contemporary Dance School, Centre National de Danse Contemporaine and Movement Research.

Stacy’s work has been supported through Gibney Dance in Process (DiP) Resident Artist 2022-23, Movement Research Artist Parent Residency; Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, Workspace Artist-in-Residence, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council NY; Manhattan Community Fund, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY; New York Live Arts Studio Series Residency; Artist Residency at Centre National de Danse Contemporaine in Angers, France.

TBDC Announces its Second Commission!

Last fall, the Trisha Brown Dance Company (TBDC) was pleased to announce its new commission initiative in celebration of the legacy of trailblazing choreographer Trisha Brown. This initiative gives our 50+ year-old company an opportunity to engage with contemporary artistic voices that have a connection to Brown’s work, while reaffirming its primary role of preserving Brown’s legacy. We had an incredible premiere of our first commission at The Joyce Theater in May, Judith Sánchez Ruíz's Let's Talk About Bleeding.

This season, TBDC will premiere a new commission by choreographer and Director of the Center National de Danse Contemporaine (CNDC) in Angers, Noé Soulier. Produced by TBDC and co-produced by CNDC Angers, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef and Arpels and Festival d’Automne Paris, with the support of Villa Albertine, this commission will pay homage to the rich history TBDC has with France and its culture.

Reflecting on Trisha’s groundbreaking spirit of innovation, these commissions seek to enter Trisha’s choreographic legacy into dialogue with a new generation of artists.

Kirstin Kapustik appointed the company's new Executive Director!

We are pleased to announce that Kirstin Kapustik has been appointed as the company’s new Executive Director!

Kirstin has a long history as a performing arts leader and is highly experienced in strategic planning, fundraising, event management and program development.  Most recently, she served as the Executive Director for six years at The House Foundation for the Arts, Inc, a nonprofit that produces the work of multi-disciplinary artist Meredith Monk.  Prior to that role, she was Managing Director of Chez Bushwick, Inc., Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation in Brooklyn.  She has also previously held positions at Danspace Project, The Watermill Center, Whitney Museum of Art, and the Center for Performance Research.  Kirstin holds an MFA in Dance from Florida State University and an MBA from Penn State University.

“We are thrilled to welcome Kirstin as our new Executive Director,” said TBDC Board President Jeanne Linnes. “This is an exciting time for the company, and we know that Kirstin’s leadership skills, expertise in arts’ management and passion for dance will continue to keep Brown’s work alive with integrity and spirit.”

This year, the Trisha Brown Dance Company presented its first commissioned work after years of solely presenting the works of Trisha Brown. Under Kirstin’s leadership, TBDC will continue to engage with new artistic voices that have a connection to Trisha’s work while also reaffirming the company’s primary mission of preserving her legacy. 

Kirstin said, “I am honored to be leading the company in its new chapter, building on Trisha Brown’s profound body of work and deepening her influence on the future of modern dance.”

Winter Tour Dates Announced!

Join us on the road this Winter in France!

We're thrilled to have the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels for this tour. 

Trisha Brown Archives Acquired by the New York Public Library

Above Left: Trisha Brown performing Accumulation with Talking (1973). Photograph © 1979 The Estate of Nathanial Tileston; Right: A page from the transcript of Trisha's performance of Accumulation with Talking plus Water Motor (1979) at Maison de la Culture de Woluwe, Brussles, November 1, 1979.


The Trisha Brown Dance Company is pleased to announce the acquisition of the Trisha Brown Archives by the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library.

Read the New York Times article about the placement here.

As we celebrate our 50th anniversary this year, our partnership with the New York Public Library represents a major step towards securing Trisha's legacy for future generations. The collection is filled with materials related to Trisha’s groundbreaking life and career, including her personal and professional papers, and choreographic notes. The Trisha Brown Dance Company records also form part of the Archives, and include correspondence, collaborator contracts, cue sheets, lighting plans, costume specifications, performance programs, posters, photographs, music scores, and much more.

Notably, the collection documents Trisha’s work from inception to completion with extensive audiovisual records, including performance documentation, performance for camera, rehearsal footage, and audio recordings. Three hundred Building Tapes exist within the Archives, representing some of the most exciting aspects of the collection. These recordings document how Brown built her work in the rehearsal studio, and each tape is connected to a series of Building Notebooks and scores, also part of the collection.

In 2009, the Trisha Brown Dance Company formalized the Trisha Brown Archives, hiring former company member Cori Olinghouse, who served as Archive Director from 2009 to 2018, to oversee a team of personnel in cataloguing and preserving Trisha Brown's oeuvre. In collaboration with choreographer David Thomson, who also danced with the company, Cori established the database that the Trisha Brown Archives continues to use today. We'd like to recognize and thank our archives team for their enormous work.

Anne Boissonnault, Archive Director
Ben Houtman, Audiovisual Archivist
David Thomson, Archive Technical Consultant

The placement of the Trisha Brown Archives with New York's premiere repository opens up the company's holdings to the dance community, scholars, and the broader public in a manner Trisha had always hoped for. She would be thrilled.

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