“We never had company class,” Ms. Lucas said. It showed her awareness of the art-historical role of the cube, but was equally a practical invention, indicative of Brown’s particular set of architectural, economic, and social conditions. Brown began showing her work with the Judson Dance Theater in the 1960s and pushed the limits of what could be considered appropriate movement for choreography. Emerging from Judson Dance Theater and the 1960s avant-garde, Brown invented what she termed her ‘pure movement’ abstract vocabulary in the 1970s, rejecting narrative, psychology and character as bases for dance-making. I also employ the word “text” because I find it helpful to conceive of Brown’s proposal in terms of Roland Barthes’s claim that the text (as opposed to what he calls the work) has an intrinsic interpretive openness; in other words, texts can be read in many ways. Here, dancers make autonomous decisions that give rise to “an unforeseen situation.”62 The performative indeterminacy, like the chance method that Brown employed to create her score, is a Cagean means of relinquishing choreographic control and opening up the dance to otherwise unexplored possibilities. A few minutes in, the camera pans slightly right, then slightly left, before gradually zooming out into a wide shot. In this case, the dance becomes “an open system” filled with brief relational intersections.63. Mona Sulzman relayed that the audience at 541 sat in five rows of chairs along one wall of the studio. View From Outside the Cube (2016) Hope Mohr’s Bridge Project invited Ibarra to respond to Trisha Brown’s Locus (1975). This content, albeit present on (and within) Brown’s dancing body, was contingent on absence. Like “basketball players” who must rely on their “peripheral vision” to gauge the actions of their “teammates,” the dancers developed a shared “pulse.”67 Locus, then, is a performance demonstrating the inner workings of a community. Q: What was your first encounter with Trisha Brown’s work? Trisha Brown. Their rigorous practice schedule and shared social network cemented their bond, apparent in their first performance of Locus and every rendition thereafter. And was that when you first connected with her work? Between the rough “back half” of Brown’s loft and the smooth “dancing half,” the reporter—who was really much more interested in how dance fit into the city’s changing economy than she was in the specifics of Brown’s floor renovations—detected the major spatial transition well under way. Judith… Read more », © 2021 BRYN MAWR COLLEGE. The cube was literally a space outside everyday space, distinguished and defined by opposition. She was later a rehearsal director (2006–2009)… Read more ». Her 1975 solo Locus bridges past and present choreographic thinking and bridges dance and other disciplines. The dance, included in a program celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Brown’s company and performed in conjunction with the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition On Line: Drawing through the Twentieth Century, was, according to Perron, the highlight of the program. The Locus project commissioned 10 Bay Area artists from multiple disciplines to learn Trisha Brown’s Locus and respond by creating their own pieces. This community was alive and well at 541 Broadway, where Brown lived and worked in the mid-1970s alongside many of her Judson Dance Theater and Grand Union collaborators, including Lucinda Childs, Douglas Dunn, David Gordon, and Valda Setterfield. 117-130. Not only did Brown and her dancers produce their cubes, their bodily movements became, over the course of their dance, the material from which their cubes were derived. She then created an “odd distribution of actions and gestures” based on what she saw. She learned the score directly from Diane Madden, Trisha Brown Dance Company’s Associate Artistic Director who has danced, directed, taught, studied and reconstructed Brown… The neutrality Brown sought with her score, if fallible, was as political and social an effort as it was an aesthetic one, inspired by a nexus of influence. Christopher-Rasheem McMillan. Her loft, like all appropriated spaces, was an architectural palimpsest. How could she parse her feelings and experiences of the space from the physical environment? I notice that the dancing half of the space has a sanded, polished floor, but that the back half—where Trisha lives with her well-beloved son Adam—still has scuffed floorboards, and in the cracks gleam pins and needles that were dropped when this was a garment-making place.”12 Brown’s neighbor, the dancer Alenikoff, recalled of the floors in her own nearby loft prior to renovation that “the floor was an obstacle course, with gaps and lurking splinters that necessitated nightly applications of gaffer tape to spare trauma to dancers’ feet and body parts.”13 Even then, in an unfinished state, the entirely wooden floors of 541 were more suitable for dance than most floors in SoHo, which were often made of concrete and covered by thin wooden floorboards. Sulzman printed the, Hendel Teicher, “Danse et Dessin/Dancing and Drawing: Trisha Brown–Hendel Teicher: entretien/interview,” in. Trisha Brown in Lydia Yee, “All Work, All Play: In Conversation with Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Jane Crawford, RoseLee Goldberg, and Alanna Heiss at the Clocktower Gallery, New York, 27 September 2010, “ in, Deborah Jowitt, “Trisha Brown Makes Dances That Talk Back,”. Since this process of following the score was repeated four times to make four sections, each of which have different move- Elizabeth Garren: When I visited New York City for two months in 1973 to study dance and attend performances, I was surprised it was Trisha’s relatively non-dance work that most captivated me—think Trisha and Sylvia Whitman doing Pamplona Stones in her loft. Trisha Brown. It also distances the experience of the viewer from that of the performer, exacerbating the space between inside and outside, and demonstrating that this space is created by knowledge as much as it is by physical location. It was the first dance Brown, Garren, Sulzman, and Ragir practiced and performed together, and the premiere dance for Brown’s new company, founded in 1974. However, the limits that the women faced as dancers living in New York during the 1970s were reliant on more than the city’s built environment. 485 Views 2 CrossRef citations to date Altmetric Features Space Travel: Trisha Brown's Locus. My archival research was funded in part by Mellon Dance Studies and the Raymond N. Ball Dissertation Fellowship. The four performers in Locus could have, under a different choreographic circumstance, overwhelmed this space, the dimensions of which proved a challenge for dancing, as for watching. The space between letters is designated point 27, situated in the cube’s center. Trisha Brown, (born November 25, 1936, Aberdeen, Washington, U.S.—died March 18, 2017, San Antonio, Texas), American dancer and choreographer whose avant-garde and postmodernist work explores and experiments in pure movement, with and without the accompaniments of music and traditional theatrical space. But, oh dear, how dull that makes her sound, and she is anything but dull. A letter of the alphabet was assigned to each of these points. . These were but a few of the many cost-cutting measures that Sulzman and Garren recounted in their interviews. The dancers and their gestures transform into fluid patterns of “harmonious sets of diagonals” “getting created and erased very quickly.”59, Within these grand fluctuations in form, the dancers make a transition from the first to the second section, in which they “activate the same points in space in the same order, with different movement.”60 Now they are allowed to choose their movement vocabulary from Brown’s homemade gestural language, visually and kinetically reminiscent of yoga and tai chi. From the outside, the dance’s methodical and precise engineering, and even the space inside the construction, is completely invisible. Finally, I am ever grateful for the challenging and insightful reviews I received from this essay’s anonymous readers. When she visually encountered a broken window, for instance, she extended her arm, bent it at the elbow, crooked her wrist forward, and methodically zig-zagged her flat, stiff hand, palm down, through the air, from eye level to waist. She has a doctorate in visual and cultural studies from the University of Rochester. It was the first time that the Trisha Brown Dance Company (TBDC) had allowed one of Brown’s dances to be transmitted beyond the company for the explicit purpose of inspiring new works. They walked (or, at night, ran) home rather than taking a cab, shared crowded loft spaces, and saved up to split a bowl of spaghetti at Fanelli Cafe on Spring Street.77 In 1975 the Wall Street Journal reporter Roger Ricklefs painted a picture of dancers’ New York City experience, dominated by financial difficulties. While she was still committed to a nonvirtuosic aesthetic, with Locus Brown “wanted to make a dance full of rich and complex movement—something [she] had not done in almost twelve years.”71 To accomplish such a dance and in the process to “transfer her own highly complex, technically-advanced and innovative improvisational moves” to her new dancers, Brown and the women worked all day every day for months.72 Brown acknowledged, “Locus . When Brown and her company danced Locus for the first time at 541, the choreographer considered it a work “in progress.”79 The dancers were still “discover[ing] [their] own movement capacities,” and Brown was adding, subtracting, and manipulating sections of the choreography. The cast-iron “nexus” for postmodern dance, commonly referred to as “the dance building,” had what the former Brown company dancer Elizabeth Garren describes as a “communal atmosphere.”1 Purchased and renovated by the Fluxus founder George Maciunas “with dancers in mind,” 541 was wider than the majority of the standard buildings in the neighborhood, and more important, it contained no interior pillars, making it an ideal choreographic work space.2 It was there that Brown conceived and premiered her 1975 dance Locus, an eighteen-minute silent work for four dancers. Clement Greenberg, “Changer: Anne Truitt,” in Collected Essays and Criticism, vol. Author interviews with Sulzman and Garren. In fact, a large part of the fascination and difficulty in performing this dance springs from the peculiar state of split concentration that is as much a part of the piece as is the movement.”64 Echoing Sulzman’s comments, Garren recalls, “You were in your own cube, but you were spatially aware of how you were related to one another.”65 Both dancers describe a feeling of simultaneous interdependence and independence that contributed to the overall success of the dance, which unfolded “in time and space” because “four people together came to a rhythm but it wasn’t a standard rhythm.”66 Without music (or a common musical tempo) to lead them, the four moved in and out of unison as they moved in and out of their cubes, and through the larger grid network. With these operations, Cage could consign decision-making authority to a source outside himself, thus evading artistic ego.40 For his 1951 piano solo Music of Changes, Cage used the sixty-four hexagrams in the Chinese “Book of Changes,” the I Ching, to create charts determining aspects of the composition including tempo, duration, pitch, timbre, and silences.41 Chance was not only meant to eliminate subjectivity, it was also designed to imitate nature, in the process, opening up the work to unforeseen possibilities.42. In the years 1965 to 1976, Trisha Brown found herself investigating vari-ous ways in which the body could be said to think. (Photo courtesy of Babette Mangolte.) While the dancer focuses moment by moment on how and where her body moves through space, the audience sees the big picture. . The strained “spatial relationship” between the recording and the dance, and between performing and watching more generally, reveals what Erin Brannigan calls “problems of visibility and legibility”; “dance has a tendency toward unrestrained, hyperbolic motility and unexplained stasis which challenges video tendency to order, restrain, frame, and cut.”57 But the apparently unedited recording of Locus does more than contain or bridle movement; it determines perspective, imbuing Locus with one front. Art Journal Volume 75, 2016 - Issue 2. As production rather than product, the Brownian form highlighted the physical labor of its makers, who worked at creating personal and collective space in which to move, rather than art-market commodities. Laban had developed his own dance sphere, the “kinesphere,” that he similarly described as the “personal space” around the body.44 Unlike the kinesphere, which was primarily a means to record all the possible movements of the body, Brown’s cube-as-score compelled particular, idiosyncratic, Brownian movements that would, eventually, become the DNA for her dances. The physical surroundings, much like the graphic notation that had emerged in experimental music of the 1950s and 1960s, offered “a means to compose a structure.”23 That structure, or the related components of the dance, in turn disclosed something about the limits of loft space that generally remained otherwise overlooked. Space Travel: Trisha Brown's Locus Search in: Advanced search. Trisha Brown, with Susan Rosenberg, “Forever Young: Some Thoughts on Selected Choreographies of the 1970s–1990s Today,” November 14, 2009, at www.trishabrowncompany.org/?page=view&nr=745, as of April 7, 2016. Thus, there is a disjuncture between, on the one hand, the dancer and dance that temporarily unhinges orientation, and, on the other, the videographer and video that permanently hinge it. See John Cage, “Composition: To Describe the Process of Composition Used in Music of Changes and Imaginary Landscape No. As Madden extends her arms and lifts her leg, connecting invisible points in space, Perron mentally connects all of the places and moments in time in which she watched Locus. One such instance in the video version of Locus occurs when Garren’s arm arches around Sulzman’s waist. Collection the artist. Addressing art and cultural production, the economic urban policy scholar Elizabeth Currid notes, “The places where such [creative sector] goods are created, distributed, and consumed have become critical nodes of culture as well, and they too are becoming commodified and mass produced.”15 When Jowitt visited Brown at 541 in 1974, she witnessed a place that was fast becoming a product. Locus was shot on video, but perhaps not “captured,” in 1977 at Mills College. His humorously but accurately titled “For Art’s Sake: Field of Modern Dance Booms, but Performers Struggle to Survive, Subheading: Even Biggest Names Earn Little but Revel Instead in ‘Inner Satisfactions’/Wheat Germ up in the Lofts” took a necessarily dramatic tone: “Until only a few years ago, modern dance was mainly considered an esoteric art form, appealing to a few devotees. This was certainly the case at 541, where Brown practiced sometimes competing and sometimes complementary roles: domestic mother and professional choreographer. 12 x 9" (30.5 x 22.9 cm). She graduated from Mills College, California, in 1958 before moving to New York City in 1961. Nearly ten years after Brown “read” the walls of her Howard Street loft, she drew the score for her 1975 dance Locus. .”68 Anderson expressed a similar sentiment. Marianne Goldberg indicates that Brown changed its name after the Judson performance, but before she performed the piece at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the NOW Festival in Washington, DC. Posted 10:48 am by joshmcilvain & filed under Blog. Elizabeth Garren: When… Read more ». Brown’s imaginary dance cubes conceptually and formally deviated from both. The cube’s invisible, dancer-manifested limits conserved space even as its cubic structure, as Sulzman recalls, “open[ed] up the dance by suggesting the possibility of multiple facings.” Brown had created a revolving dance. There were studio visits, showings, performances and conversations at all hours.”10 Brown’s “cracking open artistic boundaries,” an acknowledgment of the permeability between art and life, is echoed by Lefebvre who, concerned with exposing the dialectics of urban space, implores us to resist the “ideologically dominant” tendency to divide “space up into parts and parcels in accordance with the social division of labour.” He asserts that even when spaces are visibly, architecturally divided they are inevitably connected by people in the midst of life activities including varied, related labor practices: “Visible boundaries, such as walls and enclosures in general, give rise for their part to an appearance of separation between spaces where in fact what exists is an ambiguous continuity.”11 This continuity existed between Brown’s studio and living areas despite the partition dividing the open floor plan. Il s'agit de la pièce Locus de la chorégraphe Trisha Brown (1975), interprétée par Lisa Kraus en 1981. “All scores are imperfect in my experience,” she confesses, “But this [the score for Locus] was a beginning.”36 The score for Locus, then, is both a step toward neutrality and a recognition that neutrality may not exist. Christopher-Rasheem McMillan. . Brown’s early Lower Manhattan loft on Howard Street, similar to her later loft on Broadway, was a space in which the young choreographer and mother’s “professional and domestic spaces interpenetrated one another,” as they did her dances.17, Brown’s dances of this period have been regarded as “autobiographical.”18 Like a good autobiographer, Brown took creative liberties in how she told her own story. The loft that inspired Brown’s improvisations was not a conventional, private-sphere apartment but a place still full of the traces of public, industrial activity.”26 Illuminating as Goldberg’s comments on the shifting spatial dynamic of Brown’s loft are, she stops short at explaining why the dance was called Outside in its premiere at Judson—a familiar venue, within walking distance of Brown’s loft—and subsequently titled Inside when presented in venues outside the city and the community that the choreographer called home. Wikidata. A tribute to the persistent influence of Robert Dunn’s teaching and John Cage’s ideas on Brown’s chore- Posted 1:00 pm by joshmcilvain & filed under Blog. The cube was also an instrument for striking such a balance. Even as the city government all but relinquished its civic investment in Lower Manhattan, the artists collectively fashioned a sustainable creative community south of Houston Street. Mcfarland, 2019. Brown’s intimate space became her score in part because she knew it habitually, but wanted to more fully comprehend its objective presence. As the dancers mastered moving within the parameters of their imaginary cubes, and through the three-dimensional grid that the cubes generated, they became adept in traversing the unpredictable city grid. Although the points on Brown’s cube were relatively fixed (she admits to moving them around in order to precipitate more visually pleasing geometrical gestures), the dancers’ bodies and their movements were not. But for this exception, the frame moves very little. Yet as she performed she came to realize that the dance did not move with her, but inside her. While studios, as Sulzman states, “influence . At the time, the city was in the midst of a fiscal crisis. Q: What was your first encounter with Trisha Brown’s work? Like most dances, Locus “outgr[ew] the womb” of its practice space. The dynamic among the dancers in Locus is compelling, given its social and historical context. . . Sikkema Jenkins & Co. $50,000 - 75,000. Frances Alenikoff quoted in Kostelanetz, 79. Knowing her has changed the way i hold myself as a human being.” Judith Ragir danced in Trisha Brown’s company in the mid-to-late 1970s. .”), dancers Brown, Garren, Judith Ragir, and Mona Sulzman corporeally navigated imaginary, body-size cubes based on the choreographer’s rendering. Q460833. sections of sequential movement) highlight the relationship between seminal form and extended structure and offer the viewer a sampling View further author information. For in Locus, structure is the product of faith, of blind belief in a collective vision. . Although there were significant artistic differences between Brown and her male contemporaries, and between Brown’s cubes and theirs, the choreographer was consistently “identified with minimalism in the public’s mind and eye.”50 Brown, however, did not identify as a Minimalist, and in fact resented the designation. When, for example, Brown reached upward with her whole body and afterward dove down, nearly skimming the sitting viewers’ knees, few would have supposed she was reacting to a massive rust stain and some dispersed wires. 50 Broadway, 21st Floor, New York, NY 10004 The dance exists because Brown performed it outside the place where she made it, a place where her site-specific, site-dependent architext would continue to exist. Trisha Brown is considered the most widely acclaimed choreographer to emerge from the postmodern era. Unlike the cubes fabricated by her artist contemporaries, Brown’s were not made from plywood, glass, or metal. Sikkema Jenkins & Co. $50,000 - 75,000. Sneha Shah, Robbi Siegal, Scott Briscoe, Cherry Montejo, and Northwestern Library’s Repository and Digital Curation staff helped me obtain illustrations. Goldberg, “Reconstructing Trisha Brown,” 44. Posted 10:53 am by joshmcilvain & filed under Blog. In her Village Voice review, the critic Jill Johnston focused on Brown’s infallible “presence,” a hallmark of all of her performances.28 By emphasizing Brown’s presence, Johnston (understandably) skirted an analysis of the dance’s self-consciously abstract content. Trisha Brown (Aberdeen, 25 novembre 1936 – San Antonio, 18 marzo 2017) è stata una ballerina e coreografa statunitense, fondatrice della danza postmoderna.. Nel 1987 ha vinto il Laurence Olivier Award per l'eccellenza nella danza. (1978). Brown’s pursuit of neutrality was flawed, as the curator Hendel Teicher suggests, because the text “shows an interest in the subject.” Brown ultimately concedes to the trace subjectivity in her selection. . Goldberg, “Reconstructing Trisha Brown,” 128. . 3, Spring 1977, p 8 - 10 Articles Online. She joined Brown’s nascent company after about six weeks of classes with the choreographer. Her dancing body is rather a register of something outside itself, as Krauss further notes, “a circumstance that is registered upon it (or, invisibly, within it).” The choreographer-cum-dancer performatively manifests a trace of the absent architext, which functions here as what Krauss calls an index, “a type of sign which arises as the physical manifestation of a cause.”29 The index, as such, is physically visible and present in the dance, but its source is spatially and temporally remote and thereby publicly illegible. “Part fabrication model, part document, and part independent artwork” the graphic score, like Inside’s architext, offered “a means to compose a structure.” 30 It was a tool kit to design and organize the pieces of the dance composition, which were sometimes fixed and at other times variable. Arguably, they were not made at all. Located at the center of the cube, a twenty-seventh point designated the space between letters. She is survived by her son, Adam Brown, his wife Erin, her four grandchildren – and by her brother Gordon Brown and sister Louisa Brown. TBDC is a post-modern dance company dedicated to the performance and preservation of the work of Founding Artistic Director and Choreographer, Trisha Brown. Voicing exasperation, perhaps on Brown’s behalf, the New York Times critic Jack Anderson penned a 1979 article, paradoxically titled “Trisha Brown’s Minimalism,” in which he sought to differentiate Brown’s often whimsical, consistently embodied fascination with “rigorous structural principles” from that of the artists for whom the (albeit often faulty) classification was more appropriate: “And because she disdains theatrical frills and prefers a no-nonsense kind of movement, she may be called a ‘minimalist.’ . Dance Chronicle: Vol. Trisha Brown. Felt-tip pen, colored ink, and pencil on notebook paper. Brown then chose a piece of biographical text that she “found” in a dance program. 1975. (1975). She chose it not because of its affiliation with Minimalism, but, at least in part, because of its spatial economy and adaptability. Wendy Perron, “When the Wind Is High: Trisha Brown at Pratt Institute,”, Wendy Perron, “The Big Picture of Trisha Brown,”. In veritable poverty, the women in Brown’s company came to depend on one another for resources and support. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, BODIES IN TRANSLATION: Week 5, Much Needed Perspective, Essay by Steve Paxton: Notes on a video of a Glacial Decoy rehearsal led by Lisa Kraus and Diane Madden with the Stephen Petronio Company, BODIES IN TRANSLATION: Week 4, Paying Attention, Getting to the Nuts and Bolts of Trisha Brown, BODIES IN TRANSLATION: Week Two, Trust Fall. Copyright © 2021 College Art Association, Humans Have Been Human for So Long: Shana Lutker and Mika Yoshitake in Conversation. Today, however, the field thrives on a scale that few of its early pioneers ever imagined—and the people who make it all happen barely survive.” To prove his point with concrete numbers Ricklefs added that “no more than 15 modern dancers in the country earn more than $10,000 a year from their dancing.”78 The dancers’ meager incomes, however, fostered a resilient, communal atmosphere. When Brown created Inside she was similarly interested in discovering the rules inherent in “the live space, the surface of [her] working space.” By drawing on her “actual environment” rather than “some illusory, theatrical world” she infused her dance with her own reality, one that through her chosen score implicitly reflected her own surroundings.24 Comprising the “collection of alcove, door, peeling paint and pipes,” among other loft elements, the score for Inside was physically inseparable from its site.25 As such, Brown drew on what I call an architext, or a choreographic score determined by elements in her live-work space. to the floors and walls” where Brown and her young company rehearsed and premiered the work.32 The architectural restrictions inherent to Brown’s 541 Broadway loft indeed informed the choreographer’s spatially economical approach. . Locus Trio expands a single cube into a grid of twelve, four wide by three deep. Disregarding a dance’s origin, the place of its inception, and the cultural and architectural specificities of that place, is just as dangerous as neglecting its spatial malleability and relational resilience. Q: What was your first encounter with Trisha Brown’s work? My head was constantly swinging back and forth.”52 Garren recalls that the dancers in the quartet, bound to their cubes, were hardly “moving through space” but somehow they nonetheless received “critiques of being too expansive.”53 Her comment parallels an observation by none other than Brown’s choreographic predecessor, Merce Cunningham, who was one of the first to challenge the spatial traditions of classical dance staging: “If you don’t divide a space classically, the space remains more ambiguous and seems larger.”54 Together, and separately, the dancers in Locus produced a space that appeared larger than it was in reality. Gerald Casel on Responding to Trisha Brown's Locus Gerald Casel was one of ten artists commissioned to respond to Trisha Brown’s Locus as part of HMD’s 2016 Bridge Project, “Ten Artists Respond to Locus.” Gerald Casel and Suzette Sagisi in Casel's Taglish. fig. She copied it onto the page in upper-case letters, removed the punctuation, and inserted graphite lines between each letter. Untitled (London) from It's a Draw, 2003. Locus … 4,” in, The literature on Merce Cunningham and Cage’s use of chance procedures is extensive, and even those texts that do not specifically reference chance operations by name discuss choreographies and compositions based on chance. Understanding the importance of urban space to the creation of Locus means comprehending the state of New York City in the 1970s. 2, pp. 100 Women Trailblazers. Brown recruited Garren and Ragir, friends from Minneapolis, not long afterward.74 The women, who were simultaneously excited and intimidated by the “grubby turned-on” Manhattan of the 1970s, navigated their new city as they did the cubes in Locus.75 For, like Locus, Manhattan was, to borrow Rem Koolhaas’s description, “at the same time ordered and fluid . The arts producer John Killacky called the building a “nexus of postmodern dance history” in an interview with Andy Moore, October 26, 2008, available as a podcast at “Andy’s Treasure Trove,” Episode 8, at www.andystreasuretrove.com/, as of April 11, 2016. Lucas said that, every day, Ms. Brown would perform “Locus,” a 1975 work that moves through all parts of the body. With regard to the ongoing social production of SoHo, these relations precipitated the historically significant shift from commodity production (textiles) to creative production (art and dance). Choice/form in Trisha Brown's Locus: A view from inside the cube. 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