While perusing the NY Times Arts Section over the past week or so, nothing in particular grabbed my attention until I saw the work of Trisha Brown in the Dance section today. The piece, below, is called “Floor of the Forest” and consists of women hanging from different garments on a suspended rope grid. As you can probably tell from this piece alone, Brown is noted for her unusual perception of what dance is. Many of her works bizarrely but interestingly involve people performing on the ceiling, walls and sometimes rooftops.
What I think is so noteworthy about her work is that it is considered dance and visual art. There will be a series of performances of her choreography at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where paintings usually hang. It is called Off the Wall: Part 2 — Seven Works and it is in honor of the company’s 40th anniversary. One piece that I’d personally love to see performed is “Man Walking Down the Side of a Building,” which will be at the Whitney and is apparently exactly as it sounds: people walk on the wall. I am curious as to how Brown toys with gravity and does this.
Very interesting. Trishia Brown is one of the big names in Modern Dance. It is interesting to see how a dancer/choreographer can remain active and vital after so many years.