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trisha brown

March 10, 2015 by slow shimo

Trisha Brown (b. Aberdeen, Washington) “I decided I should make the structure as visible as the dancing.” After graduating from Mills College in Oakland, California, studying with Anna Halprin and teaching at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, Trisha Brown moved to New York City in 1961. Instantly immersed in what was to become the post-modern phenomena of Judson Dance Theater, her movement investigations found the extraordinary in the everyday and challenged existing perceptions of what constitutes performance. In this “hot-bed […]

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floor of the forest

March 8, 2015 by slow shimo

First performed in 1970 in New York City’s downtown Soho neighbourhood 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 colourful 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 […]

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the barbarians in love

February 25, 2015 by slow shimo

The Barbarians in Love (hofesh shechter) Sadlers Wells, 2015 Inspired by the complex beauty of baroque music, Hofesh Shechter’s The Barbarians in Love tells of a sparse world in which six dancers move with mathematical precision and passion. Led by a female voiceover and against a soundtrack of baroque string music and electronic hums, six dancers emerge on stage from the haze. The voiceover gives them numbered lessons, urging control and repression. The dancers shift from weighted contemporary moves to clean ballet positions; a […]

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the barbarians in love