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| Roof Piece (1971) at the Block Museum of Art, Evanston, Illinois. Photo: Jim Prisching |
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Dear TBDC Family &
Friends,
We write having recently returned from a beautiful tour to Venice, Italy for the Venice Biennale, where we presented an evening of repertory in the Teatro alle Tese. Our time in Venice marked the first performance for our newest dancer, Amanda Kmett'Pendry. We are thrilled to have her on stage with us!
TBDC sends a warm farewell to Monika Jouvert, our dedicated Development Director of three years. Monika has joined Mabou Mines as Executive Producer as they are moving back into the 122 Community Center in the East Village and are opening their very first theater in the former PS122 theater.
Best of luck, Monika, and thank you for your time with TBDC!
Jeanne Newman has joined TBDC as our new Development Director, bringing years of experience from the Chicago cultural community. She is joined by Melissa Sandor, Development Consultant, who is returning to TBDC. We also welcome Constance Du Bois as our new Administrative Assistant, formerly an intern with TBDC. Join us in welcoming them to our team.
Our return home will mark the beginning of our next big reconstruction project. This month we begin learning Trisha Brown's Geometry of Quiet (2002). This austere and intricate quartet features music by Salvatore Sciarrino. We will continue recreating the work throughout the summer, including our fall residency at Bard College's Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.
July is also a special month for education at TBDC. Our annual Summer Intensive is about to begin, bringing dancers from around the world to study the work of Trisha Brown for two weeks. Associate Artistic Director Diane Madden will be teaching in both weeks, accompanied by current dancers Tara Lorenzen and Samuel Wentz. There is limited space remaining, so act quickly and join us in the studio!
 
Diane Madden & Carolyn Lucas
Associate Artistic Directors
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Thank you for your support!
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UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
Bard College
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Trisha Brown: In Plain Site, Robert Wagner Park, NYC
Photo: Darial Sneed
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Fisher Center for the Performing Arts
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
TBDC Company Residency
September 5-9
Trisha Brown Repertory Performance
September 8 - 7:30pm
Musee d'Art Morderne de la Ville de Paris & Palais Galliera Jardin
Paris, France
Trisha Brown: In Plain Site
September 17 - 3:00pm
Fondation Cartier Pour l'Art Contemporaine
Paris, France
Man Walking Down The Side of a Building (1970), performed by Bandaloop
September 18 - 3:00pm, 4:30pm, & 6:00pm
Theatre National de Chaillot
Paris, France
Trisha Brown: In Plain Site
Accumulation (1971)
Group Primary Accumulation with Movers (1973)
September 18 - 4:30pm
Fondation Cartier Pour l'Art Contemporaine
Paris, France
Trisha Brown: In Plain Site
September 19 - 8:00pm
Read more about all upcoming TBDC on our
Season Calendar.
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LIMITED SPACE REMAINING!
TBDC SUMMER INTENSIVE
Our summer program is filling quickly.
Reserve your spot and join us in the studios this summer!
WEEK I: July 18-22
WEEK II: July 25-29
WEEK I: JULY 18-22 - Fee: $280 Baryshnikov Arts Center: 450 West 37th Street, NYC
12:00pm-2:00pm - Technique Class with Diane Madden, Associate Artistic Director
2:30pm-6:00pm - Workshop with TBDC dancer Tara Lorenzen on Trisha Brown's iconic Newark (Niweweorce) (1987), known for its forceful partnering and Trisha's elusive movement
WEEK II: July 25-29 - Fee: $280
New York City Center: 131 West 55th Street, NYC
12:00pm-2:00pm - Technique Class with TBDC dancer Samuel Wentz.
2:30pm-6:00pm - Workshop taught by Diane Madden, TBDC Associate Artistic Director, focusing on Trisha Brown's improvisational and compositional tools spanning forty years of choreographic process
All participants must be 18 or older.
Participants must take the full day (no partial days).
Participants registering for Week 1 and Week 2 will pay a discounted rate of $520. Space is limited, reserve your spot today!
Click here for a registration form. Visit
www.trishabrowncompany.org
and click on Education or contact
[email protected]
for more information.
Instructor Biographies
Tara Lorenzen
(Instructor/Current Dancer) is originally from the
hills of
West
Virginia.
U
pon graduation from
SUNY Purchase she was a me
mber of the Repertory Understudy Group under Merce Cunningham before dancing with Stephen Petronio Dance Company from 2008-2011. She has also worked with Kimberly Bartosik, Christine Elmo, Shen Wei Dance Arts, Ashleigh Leite, Todd Williams, Christopher Williams, Renee Archibald, Anna Sperber, and Beth Gill. Tara has taught master classes at Virginia Commonwealth University and American Dance Festival. She joined the Company in 2011.
Diane Madden
(Instructor/Associate Artistic Director)
attended
Hampshire
College in Massachusetts before joining the Trisha Brown Dance Company in 1980. Since then, Madden has
danced, directed, taught, studied and reconstructed Brown's work. A much lauded performer, Madden has been described in the New York Times as "one of those dancers who can make magic out of almost any task."
She
has originated roles in works including Son of Gone Fishin' (1981), Brown's masterwork Set and Reset (1983), for which she was honored, along with the full original cast, by Movement Research in 2012, Lateral Pass (1985), Carmen (1986), Newark (Niweweorce) (1987), Astral Convertible (1989) for which she was awarded a New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" Award, Foray Forêt (1990), Astral Converted (1991), the "running solo" in For M.G.: The Movie (1991), Another Story as in falling (1993), Yet Another Story as in falling (1994), M.O. (1995) set to Bach's Musical Offering, Twelve Ton Rose (1996), Accumulation with Talking Plus Repertory (1997), Monteverdi's Orfeo (1998) and the Interlude solos Rage and Ladder in El Trilogy (2000). Madden has served as Brown's personal assistant and was the rehearsal director from 1984-2000. She continued to teach and direct special projects for the Company before serving again as Rehearsal Director from 2010 until 2013, when she was named Associate Artistic Director. Through the talents of dancers both within the company and from internationally known schools and companies, Madden enjoys keeping Brown's rich range of choreography alive on stages and alternative sites worldwide. Madden has developed an approach to teaching that weaves anatomically grounded technique with improvisation, composition and performance skills. In addition to her own performance work in collaborative improvisational forms, she is greatly influenced by her study and practice of
Aikido with Fuminori Onuma. Madden is honored to be the recipient of two Princess Grace Awards, the first in 1986 and the second for sustained achievement in 1994.
Samuel
Wentz (Instructor/Guest Artist) originally from North Dakota,  received his BFA
from
NYU Tisch School of the Arts. He danced with the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 2009 - 2014. He has worked with Gerald Casel, Wally Cardona + Jennifer Lace
y, and Christopher Williams. He is currently a Teaching Fellow at Bennington College where he is pursuing an MFA in Dance.
Newark (Niweweorce) (1987) Photos: Stephanie Berger
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This year, we are rebuilding works for our new site-specific dance program,
Trisha Brown: In Plain Site. Mining and recombining material from Trisha's vast repertory, we collaborate with presenters to select a site and set the dances for that specific venue. Your donation will help to support expenses for rebuilding
Geometry of Quiet (2002), such as:
- Salary for eight dancers to rehearse for six weeks
- The return of former company members Brandi Norton, Stacy Matthew Spence and
- Todd Lawrence Stone to help teach the work
- Studio rent in New York City for six weeks
- Remaking the costumes based on the original designs by Christophe de Menil
- The rights to use the original musical score by Salvatore Sciarrino
- Reconstruction of the fabric sails for our set pieces
Make a gift of $100 or more
by July 31 and you will be invited to a special sneak peek of Geometry of Quiet at an open rehearsal this summer!
We thank you for your continued support of TBDC.
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FROM THE TRISHA BROWN ARCHIVE
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HAVANA, CUBA
July 7-24
Ensemble sin órganos / Ensemble Without Organs at
The Wifredo Lam Center of Contemporary Art in Havana will be featuring Trisha Brown's drawings. The exhibition is the first international group show to showcase performance art and live art in Cuba.
San Ignacio No.22, Esquina a Empedrado. Plaza de la Catedral, La Habana
PORTLAND, OREGON
July 23- September 2
Trees in the Forest at
Yale Union in Portland, Oregon will be showing three videos of works by Trisha Brown,
La Chanteuse (1963),
Falling Duet (1968), and
Spiral (1974). Kari Rittenbach, the exhibition's guest curator, comments,
"The metaphorical concept of the forest is the organizing principle of this exhibition, in terms of the diversity of artworks and the cyclical or intergenerational perspectives they explore. Considering nature as a concept, structure, or formal subject, the exhibited works examine its cultural and social mediation, as well as "naturalized" systems of knowledge and power in the world at large. Trees in the Forest takes an ecological approach to a disparate selection of recent art practices; it is an experimental survey of understudied territory in an era of routine environmental catastrophe."
800 SE 10th Avenue, Portland, Oregon, 97214
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK TELEVISION
Study with the Best
A profile of Vicky Shick, TBDC alumma and adjunct professor at Hunter College Dance Program (New York, NY), in which she discusses how Trisha Brown greatly influenced her life and work. The video can be seen
here.
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TBDC WELCOMES AMANDA KMETT'PENDRY
Dancer Amanda Kmett'Pendry joined TBDC in the rehearsal studios in February, and our tour to Venice, Italy marks her first performance with the Company. Congratulations, Amanda!
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Amanda Kmett'Pendry in Venice, Italy.
Photo: Anne Dechene |
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Kmett'Pendry
hails from Southern Maryland, and is a dancer/aspiring SNL cast member living in New York City. Currently, she dances with the Trisha Brown Dance Company, Julie Mayo, Nico Brown and Netta Yerushalmy. Since receiving a BFA from The University of the Arts, in Philadelphia, she has had the pleasure of working with artists Jonathan Allen, Wally Cardona & Jennifer Lacey, Jodi Melnick, Sam Kim, Katie Swords, Teddy Tedholm, Romeo Castellucci, Meg Weeks and Adrienne Westwood.
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TBDC CONGRATULATES THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET
This June's premiere of O zlozony / O composite in by the Pennsylvania Ballet was met with glowing reviews.
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Artists of the Pennsylvania Ballet perform Trisha Brown's
O zlozony / O composite (2004). Photo: Alexander Iziliaev
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TBDC congratulates the Pennsylvania Ballet on a stunning presenation of Trisha Brown's
O zlozony / O composite (2004), which premiered June 9 in Philadelphia with warm review in The New York Times.
"Currents of motion pass through the bodies with sensuous fluidity,
exemplifying the Brown idiom, which she once memorably
called 'the path of least resistance.' And you see the
dancers alternating between aspects of ballet's
rigor and a softer, looser style."
Alastair Macaulay,
The New York TImes
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