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[[Image:Trisha_Brown_by_Delahaye.jpg|thumb|258px|Trisha Brown. Photo: Delahaye.]]
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''Opal Loop / Cloud Installation #72503'', 1980. Photo: Harry Shunk.]]
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[[Image:Trisha_Brown_by_David_Seidner.jpg|thumb|258px|Trisha Brown. Photo: David Seidner.]]
 
'''Trisha Brown''' (1936-2017) was an American choreographer and dancer, and one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater and the postmodern dance movement.
 
'''Trisha Brown''' (1936-2017) was an American choreographer and dancer, and one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater and the postmodern dance movement.
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==Works==
 
==Works==
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* ''Floor of the Forest'', 1970.
 
* ''Floor of the Forest'', 1970.
 
* ''[http://www.ubu.com/dance/brown_leaning.html Leaning Duets]'', 1970.
 
* ''[http://www.ubu.com/dance/brown_leaning.html Leaning Duets]'', 1970.
* ''Accumulation'', 1971.
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* ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86I6icDKH3M Accumulation]'', 1971.
 
* ''[http://www.ubu.com/dance/brown_wall.html Walking on the Wall]'', 1971.
 
* ''[http://www.ubu.com/dance/brown_wall.html Walking on the Wall]'', 1971.
 
* ''[http://www.ubu.com/dance/brown_roof.html Roof Piece]'', 1971.
 
* ''[http://www.ubu.com/dance/brown_roof.html Roof Piece]'', 1971.
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* ''Line Up'', 1976.
 
* ''Line Up'', 1976.
 
* ''Spanish Dance'', 1976.
 
* ''Spanish Dance'', 1976.
* ''[http://www.ubu.com/film/brown_watermotor.html Watermotor]'', 1978. (film by Babette Mangolte)
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* ''[[#Watermotor|Watermotor]]'', 1978. (film by Babette Mangolte)
 
* ''[http://www.ubu.com/dance/brown_accumulation.html Accumulation with Talking plus Watermotor]'', 1978. (film by Jonathan Demme)
 
* ''[http://www.ubu.com/dance/brown_accumulation.html Accumulation with Talking plus Watermotor]'', 1978. (film by Jonathan Demme)
 
* ''Glacial Decoy'', 1979.
 
* ''Glacial Decoy'', 1979.
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==Documentation==
 
==Documentation==
; Photographs
 
* Babette Mangolte, [[Media:Mangolte_Babette_1979_A_Portfolio_of_Photographs_of_Trisha_Browns_Work.pdf|"A Portfolio of Photographs of Trisha Brown's Work"]], ''October'' 10, Autumn 1979, pp 38-50.
 
* Babette Mangolte, [[Media:Mangolte_Babette_2012_Trisha_Brown_Portfolio.pdf|"Trisha Brown: Portfolio"]], ''October'' 140, Spring 2012, pp 45-53.
 
 
 
; Video recordings
 
; Video recordings
 
''See also [[#Works|works]] above.''
 
''See also [[#Works|works]] above.''
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* Trisha Brown Dance Company, [https://danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/trisha-brown/set-and-reset Set and Reset], 1986. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150329145611/http://danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/dance/trisha-brown-dance-company?ref=artist]
 
* Trisha Brown Dance Company, [https://danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/trisha-brown/set-and-reset Set and Reset], 1986. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150329145611/http://danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/dance/trisha-brown-dance-company?ref=artist]
 
* Trisha Brown Dance Company, [https://danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/trisha-brown/les-yeux-et-lame Les Yeux et l'âme], 2011. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150329145611/http://danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/dance/trisha-brown-dance-company-0]
 
* Trisha Brown Dance Company, [https://danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/trisha-brown/les-yeux-et-lame Les Yeux et l'âme], 2011. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150329145611/http://danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/dance/trisha-brown-dance-company-0]
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; Photographs
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* Babette Mangolte, [[Media:Mangolte_Babette_1979_A_Portfolio_of_Photographs_of_Trisha_Browns_Work.pdf|"A Portfolio of Photographs of Trisha Brown's Work"]], ''October'' 10, Autumn 1979, pp 38-50.
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* Babette Mangolte, [[Media:Mangolte_Babette_2012_Trisha_Brown_Portfolio.pdf|"Trisha Brown: Portfolio"]], ''October'' 140, Spring 2012, pp 45-53.
  
 
==Exhibitions and programs==
 
==Exhibitions and programs==
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==Publications, catalogues==
 
==Publications, catalogues==
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[[Image:Trisha_Brown_Dance_and_Art_in_Dialogue_1961-2001_2003.jpg|thumb|258px|''Trisha Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue 1961-2001'', 2003.]]
 
* ''Trisha Brown: danse, précis de liberté'', ed. Michèle Doucet, Marseille: Centre de la Vieille Charité, 1998, 157 pp. Published on the occasion of an exhibition. {{fr}}
 
* ''Trisha Brown: danse, précis de liberté'', ed. Michèle Doucet, Marseille: Centre de la Vieille Charité, 1998, 157 pp. Published on the occasion of an exhibition. {{fr}}
* ''Trisha Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue 1961-2001'', ed. Hendel Teicher, forew. Adam D. Weinberg and Charles Stainback, Tang, with Andover/MA: Addison Gallery of American Art, 2003, 340 pp. Published on the occasion of an exhibition; essays by Maurice Berger, Guillaume Bernardi, Trisha Brown, Marianne Goldberg, Deborah Jowitt, Klaus Kertess, Laurence Louppe, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, and Hendel Teicher. [https://tang.skidmore.edu/publications/products/trisha-brown-dance-and-art-in-dialogue-1961-2001]
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* ''[[Media:Trisha_Brown_Dance_and_Art_in_Dialogue_1961-2001.pdf|Trisha Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue 1961-2001]]'', ed. Hendel Teicher, forew. Adam D. Weinberg and Charles Stainback, Andover, MA: Addison Gallery of American Art, 2003, 340 pp. Published on the occasion of an exhibition; essays by Maurice Berger, Guillaume Bernardi, Trisha Brown, Marianne Goldberg, Deborah Jowitt, Klaus Kertess, Laurence Louppe, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, and Hendel Teicher. [https://tang.skidmore.edu/publications/products/trisha-brown-dance-and-art-in-dialogue-1961-2001]
 
* ''Trisha Brown: So That the Audience Does Not Know Whether I Have Stopped Dancing'', ed. Peter Eleey, Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2008, 96 pp. Published on the occasion of a museum program; feat. essays by Peter Eleey and Philip Bither and a commissioned survey of Brown's drawing vocabulary contributed by the artist. [https://shop.walkerart.org/products/trisha-brown-so-that-the-audience-does-not-know-whether-i-have-stopped-dancing]
 
* ''Trisha Brown: So That the Audience Does Not Know Whether I Have Stopped Dancing'', ed. Peter Eleey, Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2008, 96 pp. Published on the occasion of a museum program; feat. essays by Peter Eleey and Philip Bither and a commissioned survey of Brown's drawing vocabulary contributed by the artist. [https://shop.walkerart.org/products/trisha-brown-so-that-the-audience-does-not-know-whether-i-have-stopped-dancing]
 
* ''Off the Wall, Part 2'', New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2010.  
 
* ''Off the Wall, Part 2'', New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2010.  
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==Interviews, conversations==
 
==Interviews, conversations==
 
* Sally Sommer, "Trisha Brown Making Dances", ''Dance Scope'', Spring 1977.
 
* Sally Sommer, "Trisha Brown Making Dances", ''Dance Scope'', Spring 1977.
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* Trisha Brown, Yvonne Rainer, [[Media:Brown_Trisha_Rainer_Yvonne_1979_A_Conversation_about_Glacial_Decoy.pdf|"A Conversation about ''Glacial Decoy''"]], ''October'' 10, Autumn 1979, pp 29-37.
 
* Marianne Goldberg, [[Media:Goldberg_Marianne_1986_Trisha_Brown_All_of_the_Persons_Person_Arriving.pdf|"Trisha Brown: All of the Person's Person Arriving"]], ''The Drama Review: TDR 30:1 (1986), 149-170.
 
* Marianne Goldberg, [[Media:Goldberg_Marianne_1986_Trisha_Brown_All_of_the_Persons_Person_Arriving.pdf|"Trisha Brown: All of the Person's Person Arriving"]], ''The Drama Review: TDR 30:1 (1986), 149-170.
 
* Marianne Goldberg, "Trisha Brown's Accumulations", ''Dance Theatre Journal'' 9:2, Autumn 1991, pp 4-7.
 
* Marianne Goldberg, "Trisha Brown's Accumulations", ''Dance Theatre Journal'' 9:2, Autumn 1991, pp 4-7.
* Trisha Brown, Yvonne Rainer, [[Media:Brown_Trisha_Rainer_Yvonne_1979_A_Conversation_about_Glacial_Decoy.pdf|"A Conversation about ''Glacial Decoy''"]], ''October'' 10, Autumn 1979, pp 29-37.
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* Yvonne Rainer, [http://bombmagazine.org/article/1720/trisha-brown "Trisha Brown"], ''BOMB'' 45, Fall 1993, pp 28-33.
 
* [http://www.ubu.com/dance/brown_kertess.html Brown in conversation with Klaus Kertess], 2004. Video.
 
* [http://www.ubu.com/dance/brown_kertess.html Brown in conversation with Klaus Kertess], 2004. Video.
 
* [https://vimeo.com/68282106 Interview at documenta 12], 2007, 3 min. Video.
 
* [https://vimeo.com/68282106 Interview at documenta 12], 2007, 3 min. Video.
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* Rossella Mazzaglia, ''Trisha Brown'', Palermo: L'epos, 2007, xvi+268 pp. {{it}}
 
* Rossella Mazzaglia, ''Trisha Brown'', Palermo: L'epos, 2007, xvi+268 pp. {{it}}
 
* Sharona Kahn, [https://dance.barnard.edu/sites/default/files/inline/sharonakahn.pdf "No to No: Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, and the “No” Manifesto"], 2009, 34 pp.
 
* Sharona Kahn, [https://dance.barnard.edu/sites/default/files/inline/sharonakahn.pdf "No to No: Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, and the “No” Manifesto"], 2009, 34 pp.
* Douglas Crimp, [[Media:Crimp_Douglas_2011_You_Can_Still_See_Her_Douglas_Crimp_on_Trisha_Brown.pdf|"You Can Still See Her: Douglas Crimp on Trisha Brown"]], ''Artforum'', Jan 2011, pp 154-160.
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* Douglas Crimp, [[Media:Crimp_Douglas_2011_You_Can_Still_See_Her_Douglas_Crimp_on_Trisha_Brown.pdf|"You Can Still See Her: Douglas Crimp on Trisha Brown"]], ''Artforum'', Jan 2011, pp 154-160, [http://aaaaarg.fail/static/reader.htm?0=c521b427562ae06ae5917f98d162f03f-0 ARG].
 
* Marianne Goldberg, [https://books.google.com/books?id=nbeIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA37 "Trisha Brown"], in ''Fifty Contemporary Choreographers'', eds. Martha Bremser and Lorna Sanders, London: Routledge, 2011, pp 37-42.
 
* Marianne Goldberg, [https://books.google.com/books?id=nbeIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA37 "Trisha Brown"], in ''Fifty Contemporary Choreographers'', eds. Martha Bremser and Lorna Sanders, London: Routledge, 2011, pp 37-42.
* Alexander Schwan, [https://academia.edu/8734651 "'Dancing is like scribbling, you know.' Schriftbildlichkeit in Trisha Browns Choreographie ''Locus''"], ''Sprache und Literatur'' 107, pp 58-70. {{de}}
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* Alexander Schwan, [https://academia.edu/8734651 "'Dancing is like scribbling, you know.' Schriftbildlichkeit in Trisha Browns Choreographie ''Locus''"], ''Sprache und Literatur'' 107, 2011, pp 58-70. {{de}}
* Susan Rosenberg, [[Media:Rosenberg_Susan_2012_Trisha_Brown_Choreography_as_Visual_Art.pdf|"Trisha Brown: Choreography as Visual Art"]], ''October'' 140, Spring 2012, pp 18-44.
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* Susan Rosenberg, [[Media:Rosenberg_Susan_2012_Trisha_Brown_Choreography_as_Visual_Art.pdf|"Trisha Brown: Choreography as Visual Art"]], ''October'' 140, Spring 2012, pp 18-44, [http://aaaaarg.fail/static/reader.htm?0=42ac37c87f4600fbcbb2d5557de3f4d2-0 ARG].
 
* Susan Rosenberg, "Trisha Brown's ''Water Motor'': Forever, Now, and Again", ''TDR: The Drama Review'' 56:1, Spring 2012, pp 150-157. [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/466484]
 
* Susan Rosenberg, "Trisha Brown's ''Water Motor'': Forever, Now, and Again", ''TDR: The Drama Review'' 56:1, Spring 2012, pp 150-157. [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/466484]
* Amanda Jane Graham, [http://sci-hub.cc/10.1080/01472526.2013.756355 "Out of Site: Trisha Brown's ''Roof Piece''"], ''Dance Chronicle'' 36, 2013, pp 59-76.
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* Amanda Jane Graham, [http://sci-hub.tw/10.1080/01472526.2013.756355 "Out of Site: Trisha Brown's ''Roof Piece''"], ''Dance Chronicle'' 36, 2013, pp 59-76, [http://aaaaarg.fail/static/reader.htm?0=aa9f4535ef0416a49f6c5f13e70e3fe8-0 ARG].
 
* Marianne Goldberg, [http://trishabrown.brynmawr.edu/2015/10/23/trisha-brown-by-marianne-goldberg/ "Trisha Brown"], Oct 2015.
 
* Marianne Goldberg, [http://trishabrown.brynmawr.edu/2015/10/23/trisha-brown-by-marianne-goldberg/ "Trisha Brown"], Oct 2015.
 
* "Morgan on Graham/Mangolte on Brown", intro. Kristin Poor, ''Aperture'' 221: "Performance", Winter 2015. [http://aperture.org/shop/aperture-221-magazine/]
 
* "Morgan on Graham/Mangolte on Brown", intro. Kristin Poor, ''Aperture'' 221: "Performance", Winter 2015. [http://aperture.org/shop/aperture-221-magazine/]

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Trisha Brown in Accumulation (1971). Photo Nathaniel Tileston, 1979.
Born November 25, 1936(1936-11-25)
Aberdeen, Washington, US
Died March 18, 2017(2017-03-18) (aged 80)
San Antonio, Texas, US
Web UbuWeb, Aaaaarg, Wikipedia, Academia.edu
Trisha Brown. Photo: Delahaye.
Opal Loop / Cloud Installation #72503, 1980. Photo: Harry Shunk.
Trisha Brown. Photo: David Seidner.

Trisha Brown (1936-2017) was an American choreographer and dancer, and one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater and the postmodern dance movement.


Trisha Brown, Watermotor, 1978. Film by Babette Mangolte. Download (MKV).

Works

  • Homemade, 1966.
  • Planes, 1968.
  • Man Walking Down the Side of a Building, 1970.
  • Floor of the Forest, 1970.
  • Leaning Duets, 1970.
  • Accumulation, 1971.
  • Walking on the Wall, 1971.
  • Roof Piece, 1971.
  • Primary Accumulation, 1972.
  • Group Primary Accumulation, 1973.
  • Structured Pieces II, 1974.
  • Spiral, 1974.
  • Locus, 1975.
  • Structured Pieces III, 1975.
  • Solo Olos, 1976.
  • Line Up, 1976.
  • Spanish Dance, 1976.
  • Watermotor, 1978. (film by Babette Mangolte)
  • Accumulation with Talking plus Watermotor, 1978. (film by Jonathan Demme)
  • Glacial Decoy, 1979.
  • Opal Loop, 1980.
  • Son of Gone Fishin', 1981.
  • Set and Reset, 1983.
  • Lateral Pass, 1985.
  • Newark, 1987.
  • Astral Convertible, 1989.
  • Foray Forêt, 1990.
  • For M.G.: The Movie, 1991.
  • One Story as in falling, 1992.
  • Another Story as in falling, 1993.
  • If you couldn't see me, 1994.
  • M.O., 1995.
  • Twelve Ton Rose, 1996.
  • L'Orfeo, 1998.
  • Winterreise, 2002.
  • PRESENT TENSE, 2003.
  • O Zlozony/O Composite, 2004.
  • How long does the subject linger on the edge of the volume..., 2005.
  • I love my robots, 2007.
  • L'Amour au Theatre, 2009.
  • Pygmalion, 2010.
  • I'm Going to Toss My Arms – If You Catch Them They're Yours, 2011.

Filmography

  • Water Motor, short film, actress, 1978.
  • L’orfeo, favola in musica, TV film, choreography and stage manager, 1998.

Documentation

Video recordings

See also works above.

Photographs

Exhibitions and programs

Publications, catalogues

Trisha Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue 1961-2001, 2003.
  • Trisha Brown: danse, précis de liberté, ed. Michèle Doucet, Marseille: Centre de la Vieille Charité, 1998, 157 pp. Published on the occasion of an exhibition. (French)
  • Trisha Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue 1961-2001, ed. Hendel Teicher, forew. Adam D. Weinberg and Charles Stainback, Andover, MA: Addison Gallery of American Art, 2003, 340 pp. Published on the occasion of an exhibition; essays by Maurice Berger, Guillaume Bernardi, Trisha Brown, Marianne Goldberg, Deborah Jowitt, Klaus Kertess, Laurence Louppe, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, and Hendel Teicher. [3]
  • Trisha Brown: So That the Audience Does Not Know Whether I Have Stopped Dancing, ed. Peter Eleey, Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2008, 96 pp. Published on the occasion of a museum program; feat. essays by Peter Eleey and Philip Bither and a commissioned survey of Brown's drawing vocabulary contributed by the artist. [4]
  • Off the Wall, Part 2, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2010.
  • Trisha Brown: l'invenzione dello spazio, Pistoia: Gli ori, 2010, 159 pp. Published on the occasion of Aperto Festival 2009. Text by Rossella Mazzaglia and Adriana Polveroni. (Italian)/(English)
  • Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta-Clark: Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s, Munich: Prestel, with London: Barbican Art Gallery, 2011, 223 pp. Published on the occasion of an exhibition. [5]
  • Histoire(s) et lectures: Trisha Brown / Emmanuelle Huynh, 1992-2012, eds. Emmanuelle Huynh, Denise Luccioni and Julie Perrin, Dijon: Les Presses du réel, with Angers: Centre national de danse contemporaine (CNDC), 2012, 343 pp. Contributions by Guillaume Bernardi, Trisha Brown, Emmanuelle Huynh, Kevin Kortan, Laurence Louppe, Denise Luccioni, Diane Madden, Julie Perrin, Shelley Senter, Stacy Spence. [6] (French)

Interviews, conversations

Miscellanea

Literature

Books

  • Lise Brunel, Babette Mangolte, Guy Delahaye, Trisha Brown, Paris: Bougé, 1987, 98 pp. Collection of interviews, articles, and photographic analyses of Brown's choreography. (French)/(English)
  • Susan Rosenberg, Trisha Brown: Choreography as Visual Art, Wesleyan University Press, 2017. [7]

Book chapters, papers, essays

Films

  • In the Steps of Trisha Brown, dir. Marie-Hélène Rebois, 2016, 79 min. [10]

Links