Trisha Brown Roof Piece

Generations of trisha brown company dancers have performed roof piece all over the world.

Trisha brown roof piece.

Brown s early works walking on the wall 1971 and roof piece 1971 were designed to be performed at specific sites. Her roof piece 1973 in new york city employed 15 dancers each on a different manhattan roof following each other s sequence of movements while the audience watched from another roof. In 1970 brown cofounded the grand union an experimental dance collective and formed the trisha brown dance company. Trisha brown dance company.

Tbdc is a post modern dance company dedicated to the performance and preservation of the work of founding artistic director and choreographer trisha brown. The original version performed in 1971 spanned 10 blocks in lower manhattan. Room roof piece was conceived produced and edited by amanda kmett pendry and jamie scott. Room roof piece 2020 room roof piece is a 25 minute video dance based on trisha s 1971 roof piece made remotely by the trisha brown dance company dancers as they continue to explore ways of interacting with the work and each other from afar.

La pieza consistía en la emisión de una serie de movimientos improvisados por parte del performer situado en el primer edificio los cuales debían ser imitados por cada uno de los bailarines de modo que estos fueran trasladándose de un cuerpo a otro y de un tejado a otro hasta llegar al final de la cadena. Visual art and performance art. Established in 1970 tbdc has toured throughout the world presenting the work teaching and building relationships with audiences and artists alike. Roof piece on the high line in this short film director babette mangolte captures trisha brown s roof piece as it was performed in 2011 on the high line in new york city.

The dance which took place in the compressed architectural space of the structure required spectators to move about the space in order to see every dancer. Roof piece uses distance to transcend the boundaries of a room a stage and the eye of a single viewer.