Roof Piece By Trisha Brown

Roof piece uses distance to transcend the boundaries of a room a stage and the eye of a single viewer.

Roof piece by trisha brown.

For trisha the choreography was testing how improvised movements appear at a distance and are transformed by transmission by a succession of dancers mimicking with variation what they see and how what has been transmitted at one end is different when received at the other end. Generations of trisha brown company dancers have performed roof piece all over the world. In partnership with center for the art of performance at the university of california los angeles cap ucla as part of the trisha brown dance company. This version travels from new south wales all the way to brooklyn.

In 1970 brown cofounded the grand union an experimental dance collective and formed the trisha brown dance company. After forming her own dance company in 1970 many of trisha brown s early works used the terrain of her adoptive soho. Roof piece was first performed in 1971 in and around wooster and lafayette streets. Dancers artistic staffs.

These works were presented in non traditional settings outside of theaters such as on roof tops and the sides of buildings. Brown s early works walking on the wall 1971 and roof piece 1971 were designed to be performed at specific sites. Trisha brown set some her choreographies in the public spaces of new york city at a time of explosive experimentation in neighbourhoods such as soho and paid special attention to urban and architectural elements an approach that had an enormous influence on many contemporary artists such as gordon matta clark. The original version performed in 1971 spanned 10 blocks in lower manhattan.

A dance by trisha brown and a photograph by babette mangolte. Roof piece is a work that brown who died in 2017 first performed in 1971. The retrospective project the getty presents the west coast premiere of one of the acclaimed choreographer s most iconic works roof piece in two free performances on saturday april 6 2013.