Photo © Carol Goodden, 1971

REPERTORY/ Walking on the Wall

The performers stood, and walked, and ran parallel to the floor along two adjacent walls while suspended in special harnesses rigged on cables to trolleys on industrial tracks along the ceiling. - Trisha Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue, 1961-2001, Teicher, Hendel

CHOREOGRAPHY:

Trisha Brown

SOUND:

Sound of trolleys in tracks and dancers’ dialogue to gain passage while aerial

Visual Design:

Trisha Brown

COSTUME:

Dance work clothes

LENGTH:

20-30 minutes

Performers:

7 dancers

ORIGINAL CAST:

Carmen Beuchat, Trisha Brown, Douglas Dunn, Mark Gabor, Barbara Lloyd, Steve Paxton, Sylvia Whitman

NY PREMIERE:

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, March 30, 1971

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