Segal Center to Celebrate Life and Work of Trisha Brown

Celebrating the Life and Work of Trisha Brown (1936-2017) is set for Monday, December 18, starting at 2 p.m. with screenings, followed by a panel discussion, at the Segal Theatre. Free and open to the public! First come, first served. The event takes place at The Graduate Center, CUNY, (365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street).

Afternoon screenings from the Trisha Brown Archive, curated by Cori Olinghouse, and introduced by Susan Rosenberg, courtesy of Trisha Brown Archive:

- 2:00pm Skunk Cabbage, Salt Grass, and Waders (1969)
Choreography: Trisha Brown

- 2:45pm Dancing on the Edge (1981)
Choreography: Trisha Brown

- 3:30pm Set and Reset (1985)
Choreography: Trisha Brown
Videography: James Byrne

- 4:15pm Aeros (1990)
Director: Burt Burr
Choreography: Trisha BrownV
isual Presentation: Robert Rauschenberg
Film: Robert Whitman

- 6:30pm Panel with dance experts and members of Trisha Brown Dance Company, including Susan Rosenberg, Diane Madden, and Gwen Welliver. Moderated by Frank Hentschker.

Followed the afternoon screenings from the Trisha Brown Archive, curated by Cori Olinghouse, the evening discussion features Art historian Susan Rosenberg, associate artistic director and former Trisha Brown Dance Company member Diane Madden, and former rehearsal director and choreographer Gwen Welliver. Moderated by Frank Hentschker. Susan Rosenberg's recent publication on the artist, Trisha Brown: Choreography as Visual Art (Wesleyan, 2016) will also be available at the event.

"One of the most acclaimed and influential choreographers and dancers of her time, Trisha Brown's groundbreaking work forever changed the landscape of art. A student of Anna Halprin, Brown participated in the choreographic composition workshops taught by Robert Dunn-from which Judson Dance Theater was born-greatly contributing to the fervent interdisciplinary creativity that defined 1960s New York. Expanding the physical behaviors that qualified as dance, she discovered the extraordinary in the everyday, and brought tasks, rulegames, natural movement and improvisation into the making of choreography.

"With the founding of the Trisha Brown Dance Company in 1970, Brown set off on her own distinctive path of artistic investigation and ceaseless experimentation, which extended for forty years. The creator of over 100 choreographies, six operas, and a graphic artist, whose drawings have earned recognition in numerous museum exhibitions and collections, Brown's earliest works took impetus from the cityscape of downtown SoHo, where she was a pioneering settler. In the 1970s, A. Brown strove to invent an original abstract movement language-one of her singular achievements-it was art galleries, museums and international exhibitions that provided her work its most important presentation context.

"Today the Trisha Brown Dance Company continues to perpetuate Brown's legacy through its 'Trisha Brown: In Plain Site' initiative. Through it, the company draws on Brown's model for reinvigorating her choreography through its re-siting in relation to new contexts that include outdoor sites, and museum settings and collections. The company is also involved in an ongoing process of reconstructing and remounting major works that Brown created for the proscenium stage between 1979 and 2011. In addition, the company continues its work to consolidate Trisha Brown's artistic legacy through their management of her vast archives of notebooks; correspondence; critical reviews; and an unprecedented moving image catalogue raisonné, which records her meticulous creative process over many decades."

For more information about this event, visit the Facebook event: bit.ly/2l63Pb7. Can't make it? This event will be live-streamed on the Segal Center home page: thesegalcenter.org/home.

Photo Credit: Marc Ginot