This spring, Trisha Brown's work will be shared with dancers around the world.

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TRISHA BROWN DANCE COMPANY
SPRING 2017 EDUCATION NEWSLETTER  

TBDC dancer Jamie Scott teaches class at the Mark Morris Dance Studios, produced by the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
WEEKLY CLASSES IN NEW YORK CITY

As a Founding Partner at Gibney Dance Center 280 Broadway, TBDC holds regular, ongoing classes for dancers in New York City to study the technique and repertory of Trisha Brown. Classes are led by current dancers and TBDC alumni, allowing for a diverse range of pedagogies spanning decades of Trisha Brown's creative practice.

We are glad to share that this spring we will hold class every Saturday morning from 10:00am-12:00pm. TBDC dancers Leah Ices and Lee Serle will be teaching the majority of the classes, also including dancer Marc Crousillat and alum Mariah Maloney.

Gibney Dance Center, 280 Broadway, NYC
Saturdays, 10:00am-12:00pm
February 4 - Leah Ives
Feburary 11 - Leah Ives
February 18 - Leah Ives
February 25 - Lee Serle

March 4 - Leah Ives
March 11 - Mariah Maloney
March 18 - Leah Ives
March 25 - Leah Ives

April 1 - Leah Ives
April 8 - Marc Crousillat
April 15 - March Crousillat
April 22 - TBD
April 29 - Lee Serle

May 6 - Lee Serle
May 13 - Lee Serle
May 20 - Lee Serle
May 27 - Lee Serle





Leah Ives, Lee Serle, Marc Crousillat, and Mariah Maloney
TBDC AND BARD COLLEGE CONTINUE
EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP
TBDC dancer Tara Lorenzen will be leading classes for dancers at Bard College this semester. In addition to teaching advanced technique classes, Lorenzen will be leading a restaging of Foray Forêt, Trisha Brown's 1990 work, for performance in the College's Faculty Concert at the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. This piece marks the beginning of Brown's elegant and mysterious Back to Zero cycle, in which she pulled back from external virtuosity to investigate unconscious movement.

This semester's restaging project follows last year's performance of Set and Reset/Reset-a creative project where dancers use the movement and compositional tools of the original Set and Reset (1983) to create a new version of the work-along with excerpts from For M.G.: The Movie (1994) and Accumulation with Talking plus Cutbacks (1979). This project was taught by TBDC alum Leah Morrison. 
 
Bard College students perform Set and Reset/Reset, 2016.  
Photo: China Jorrin

Over the past two years, TBDC has graciously partnered with Bard College and their dance community. In additional to teaching classes, the Company has performed on Campus each year in conjunction with a full-week rehearsal residency. Additional engagement activities have included masterclasses, open rehearsals, and a lecture by TBDC Scholar in Residence Susan Rosenberg, where Rosenberg contextualized Brown's early work in an art history framework.   
TBDC EDUCATION PROJECTS NEAR AND FAR

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
TBDC continues teaching with dancers at the Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (P.A.R.T.S.) with two, five-week residencies. TBDC alum Kathleen Fisher is currently in Brussels teaching teachnique classes for students, including workshops for dancers in Rosas Company, through February. In April and May, TBDC alum Samuel Wentz will continue teaching, giving students a dynamic learning experience over the course of one semester.

BERLIN, GERMANY
TBDC's Associate Artistic Director Diane Madden spent a week this January with dancers of the Sasha Waltz & Guests, learning Trisha Brown technique in an intensive workshop.

HARTSVILLE, SC - This weekend!
Dancers at Coker College will work with TBDC alum Abigail Yager in a three-day workshop, learning material from Trisha Brown's Set and Reset (1983). Students will perform what they learn in a faculty concert in February.

PARIS, FRANCE
A group of students called Association De L'air dans L'art have raised funds to support a week-long Trisha Brown Set and Reset/Reset workshop, led by TBDC alum Stuart Shugg. The group will perform the work three times in Pantin, Marseille, and Paris in Spring 2017.

PURCHASE, NY
Dancers at Purchase College will learn Trisha Brown's Glacial Decoy (1979), led by TBDC Associate Artistic Director Diane Madden. Rehearsals will occur over four, intense weeks and culminate in performances on campus at Purchase College as well as at New York Live Arts in NYC. Students at Purchase College will be redesigning the lighting, costume, and projection design to create a wholly new design for this iconic dance.

NEW YORK, NY
This semester, dancers at New York University Tisch School of the Arts are performing a version of Set and Reset/Reset created by Diane Madden during the fall 2016 semester. The work will be performed in the Jack Crystal Theater March 27-April 1, 2017. This project is particularly significant as TBDC worked with NYU's Dance and New Media Department in realizing a new project design and sculpture based on Robert Rauschenberg's original Shiner.

ANGERS, FRANCE
TBDC's Associate Artistic Director Diane Madden will travel to the Centre national de danse contemporaine Angers for five weeks, teaching Trisha Brown technique and repertory and preparing for a final, culminating showing. Students will learn material from Son of Gone Fishin`(1981) and Locus (1975).

NANTES, FRANCE
Dancers at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Nantes will work with TBDC Associate Artistic Director Diane Madden for three days in April, learning Trisha Brown technique.

NEW HAVEN, CT
TBDC dancer Marc Crousillat will lead two workshops for dancers at Yale University in April.

POSTDAM, GERMANY
TBDC alum Shelley Senter will travel to Postdam, Germany to lead one week of classes for the festival Frabrik Postdam in May.
SAVE THE DATE: TBDC SUMMER INTENSIVE 2017

TBDC Summer Intensive 2015. Photo Scott Shaw.

Our Summer Intensive is slated for June 12-16 and June 19-23 in New York City. Join us for two weeks of rigorous study, led by current dancers and alumni.

Mark your calendars! More information will be available soon.
WINTER INTENSIVE 2017 RECAP

Dancers from five countries and six states convened in the Barnard College studios this January to work with TBDC alums Stacy Matthew Spence, Irene Hultman, and Laurel Jenkins. They worked on material from Set and Reset (1983), Glacial Decoy (1979), and Opal Loop/Cloud Installation #72503 (1980).

The week of classes culminated in a showing of compositions created using movement material from Opal Loop, pictured below.










Are you interested in bringing Trisha Brown Dance Company to your institution? Contact Nico Brown, Education Director, at [email protected] for more information!









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