Trisha Brown
30 March - 21 April 2013
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Dance/Draw
October 7, 2011 - January 16, 2012
Installation view, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. |
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TRISHA BROWN
Floor of the Forest
30 March - 21 April 2013
First performed in 1970 in New York City's downtown Soho neighborhood by
Trisha Brown and Carmen Beuchat, "Floor of the Forest” consists of a
sculptural steel frame holding up a web of ropes that have been threaded
with colorful used clothing. Placed at eye-level, this horizontal plane
becomes a soft platform for two dancers to negotiate. Climbing onto the
apparatus, the dancers weave their way across the structure by putting
on and then taking off the clothing, occasionally pausing to allow
gravity to pull their bodies toward the floor while the clothing acts as
a cocoon or hammock. For the three-week presentation of the work, the
sculpture will be installed in the Hammer Courtyard. Dancers from the
UCLA World Arts and Cultures (WAC) program will perform the piece during
the installation.
Performance schedule:
Thursdays and Fridays: 1pm, 3pm, 5pm, 7pm
Saturdays and Sundays: 12pm, 2pm, 4pm
Each performance runs for 20 minutes.
The Hammer Museum will further explore Trisha Brown’s early work through
a variety of free screenings on April 10, including archival
performance and documentary footage that highlight the artist’s
prestigious career.
"Floor of the Forest" is presented as part of Trisha Brown Dance
Company: The Retrospective Project, a weeklong celebration of Trisha
Brown, the most widely acclaimed choreographer to emerge from the
postmodern era. Presented by the Center for the Art of Performance at
UCLA, "The Retrospective Project” explores Brown’s exceptional body of
work from ensemble and opera choreography to eclectic installation and
site-specific works that highlight Brown’s unique and influential
approach to modern dance. In a career that has spanned five decades,
Brown has received countless accolades for her choreography including
the National Medal of Arts, the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, and the
title of Commandeur dans L’Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French
government. She was also the first woman choreographer to receive the
MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
Trisha Brown Dance Company announced in December that while Brown will
remain artistic director, she will cease choreographing new work for her
world-renowned company. CAP UCLA’s Retrospective Project includes her
final piece, "I am going to toss my arms, if you catch them they are
yours.”
www.hammer.ucla.edu
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