Roof Piece Trisha Brown

Excerpt from trisha brown s room roof piece via trisha brown dance company the original roof piece was inspired by the follow the leader copying in dance classes and rehearsals a mode of.

Roof piece trisha brown.

Visual art and performance art. Room roof piece 2020 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. In 1970 brown cofounded the grand union an experimental dance collective and formed the trisha brown dance company. 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.

Generations of trisha brown company dancers have performed roof piece all over the world. Brown s early works walking on the wall 1971 and roof piece 1971 were designed to be performed at specific sites. 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. Established in 1970 tbdc has toured throughout the world presenting the work teaching and building relationships with audiences and artists alike.

Tbdc is a post modern dance company dedicated to the performance and preservation of the work of founding artistic director and choreographer trisha brown.