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Celebrating the revolutionary legacies and eduring friendship of Robert Rauschenberg and Trisha Brown
Monday, May 18, 2025
Xanadu Roller Arts, Brooklyn, NY
7pm Performance featuring
Rauschenberg’s Pelican (1963)
Brown’s Skunk Cabbage, Salt Grass & Waders (1967) & Rulegame 5 (1964)
8pm Roller Skating DJ Dance Party, Drinks, Food & Remarks
Join our Gala Committee today by selecting your support level to the right of this page.
For additional support or questions, please email Executive Director Kirstin Kapustik at k.kapustik@trishabrowncompany.org.
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On behalf of the Board of Directors and the Trisha Brown Dance Company, we invite you to join the Gala Committee for our extraordinary upcoming evening.
This year’s Gala is unlike anything we have done before. Staged at Brooklyn’s premiere roller-skating rink, the evening will honor the revolutionary legacies of Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg through a bold, immersive reimagining of their early collaborations.
With the generous support of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, we will present Pelican (1963) and Skunk Cabbage, Salt Grass and Waders (1967) side-by-side for the first time — staged in tribute to their original environments and playful, risk-taking spirit.
Originally created for and performed on roller skates, Pelican marked Rauschenberg’s debut choreography, fusing sculpture, movement, and theatrical surprise. Brown’s Skunk Cabbage, Salt Grass and Waders, an intimate and improvisational early work performed to her own spoken text, reflects the deeply personal, experimental ethos that would define her career.
More than six decades later, Trisha Brown Dance Company will reimagine these works in dialogue — acknowledging the profound artistic exchange, trust, and mutual influence between two of the most vital artists of the twentieth century. The evening will feature leading performers connected to the Cunningham and Brown lineages, as well as a soloist from New York City Ballet.
We would be grateful if you could let us know of your interest in joining the Gala Committee by April 1.
SUPPORT LEVELS
$25,000 GALA HOST includes tickets for 15 to the event, premier performance seating and listed as a Committee Member in all Gala print and digital materials.
$10,000 EVENT COMMITTEE includes tickets for 10 to the event, premiere performance seating and listed as a Committee Member in all Gala print and digital materials
$5,000 PATRON includes tickets for 6 to the event, premiere performance seating and listed as a Committee Member in all Gala print and digital materials.
$1,000 GALA COMMITTEE includes tickets for 2 to the event, premiere performance seating and listed as a Committee Member in all Gala print and digital materials.
Tax-deductible as permitted by law (minus estimated goods & services). Details will be provided on your receipt.
The Trisha Brown Dance Company is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Other major support of the Trisha Brown Dance Company provided by the Imperfect Family Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, Jody and John Arnhold, the Hyde and Watson Foundation, the Harkness Foundation for Dance and The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. TBDC also extends special thanks to the Trisha Brown Company Board of Trustees and the Company’s Individual Donors at all levels.
Dancing with Bob: Rauschenberg, Brown and Cunningham Onstage is generously supported by Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, The Imperfect Family Foundation, The Dedalus Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the James E. Robison Foundation and The Jerome Robbins Foundation. With additional support from Ken Tabachnick and Yael Mandelstam.
Special thanks to Ken Tabachnick for envisioning this program; Andrea Weber, Rashaun Mitchell, and Patricia Lent of the Merce Cunningham Trust for their partnership; Courtney J. Martin, Francine Snyder, Kate Reibel, Miriam Master, and Anne Boissonnault; and the team at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation for helping to bring this vision to life.
To donate by check:
Please mail to:
Trisha Brown Company, Inc.
315 W 39th Street, Studio 908
New York, NY 10018
For more information on our special events or how to become a supporter of the Trisha Brown Dance Company please contact:
email: k.kapustik@trishabrowncompany.org or call (212) 977-5365.
Thanks to our contributors who make the work of Trisha Brown Company possible. Donation is tax-deductible as permitted by law.