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Venue: Zellerbach Hall
Price: $26/$36/$48
Subscription Series: Choose-Your-Own, Winter Dance & Theater Mini-Series
An intriguing mix of the cerebral and the sensual, Trisha Brown's maverick brand of movement "embodies what is truly extraordinary about modern dance," says Time Out New York of this dance legend's distinctive choreographic style. Beginning her formal dance training at Mills College and her career with the avant-garde Judson Dance Theater in the 1960s, Brown went on to become the first female choreographer to receive the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and in 2003, was honored with the National Medal of Arts. Her pioneering artistry has influenced a generation of modern dance choreographers and she has become known worldwide for her unique ability to infuse rigorous formal elegance with eccentricity, wit, and lyricism. Brown's acclaimed company returns following the West Coast premiere in 2000 of her Canto/Pianto, a dance synthesis of Brown's much-praised staging of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo.
Funded, in part, by the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts with lead funding from National Endowment for the Arts and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Additional funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and The Ford Foundation.
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Program: Brown/Present Tense, set to John Cage's Pieces for Prepared Piano; Set & Reset, sets and score by Robert Rauschenberg; Groove & Countermove, set to original score by Dave Douglas
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Program Notes: Program notes are available online, click here.
Education and Community Events:
On Stage Interview: A Conversation with Joan Acocella and Trisha Brown
Thursday, February 24, 7:00-8:00 p.m.
Wheeler Auditorium
New Yorker dance critic Joan Acocella conducts a public interview with choreographer Trisha Brown. One of modern dance's most influential choreographers, Trisha Brown is widely respected for her ability to infuse formal elegance with eccentricity and lyricism. This year, the acclaimed Trisha Brown Company celebrates its 35th anniversary with classic and new dances at Cal Performances.
Joan Acocella has been The New Yorker's dance critic since 1998. She is the author of a biographical/critical study of the choreographer Mark Morris, editor of the first English language volume of Nijinsky's diaries, and co-editor of Andre Levinson on Dance: Writings from Paris in the Twenties. A 1994 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, she has written on dance, literature and other arts for The New York Times Book Review, Art in America, The New York Review of Books, and the Times Literary Supplement. As the 2005 Avenali Professor in the Humanities at the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley, she presents the Avenali lecture "Ballet and Sex" on Tuesday, February 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the Morrison Room of Doe Library. This will be followed on Wednesday, February 23, by a panel discussion at 4:00 p.m. in the Geballe Room at the Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall.
Donor Events: Connoisseur Event, Robert Cole interviews Trisha Brown the week of February 21, 2005 (Donors at $50+)
Related Performances:
Shen Wei Dance Arts
Artists links:
Official Trisha Brown Dance Company site
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