Photo © Karli Cadel
Photo © Julieta Cervantes, 2011
Photo © Julieta Cervantes, 2011
Photo © Julieta Cervantes, 2011
Photo © Julieta Cervantes, 2011
Photo © Julieta Cervantes, 2011

REPERTORY/ Foray Forêt

Foray Forêt…is one of her most sophisticated, subtle and delicate and also one of her most elusive [works]. Even for a choreographer like Brown, who likes to disturb the order of things, this one fractures our cozy notions of esthetic perception.
- Mike Steele, Star Tribune

The first work in Brown's elegant and mysterious Back to Zero cycle, Foray Forêt (1990) is marked by a conscious simplification. With a vocabulary of intimate movements generated through engaging the subconscious mind—what Brown called "delicate aberrations"—the piece sets off pared-down athleticism against enigmatic, miniaturized physical gesture. [1]

 

1. Program Notes. "Trisha Brown Dance Company." Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Northrop Dance, co-presented with The Walker Art Center, April 5, 2008. 

CHOREOGRAPHY:

Trisha Brown

SOUND:

Local marching band

Visual Design:

Robert Rauschenberg

COSTUME:

Robert Rauschenberg

LIGHT:

Spencer Brown

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, Shelley Senter, David Thomson, Wil Swanson

NY PREMIERE:

New York City Center, New York, NY, March 5, 1991

US PREMIERE:

Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, November 2, 1990

WORLD PREMIERE:

Biennale de la Danse de Lyon, Lyon, France, September 22, 1990

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