Trisha Brown : choreography as visual art / Susan Rosenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenberg, Susan, 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brown, Trisha, 1936-2017.

Brown, Trisha.

Choreographers--United States--Biography.

Choreographers.

United States.

Dancers--United States--Biography.

Dancers.

Artists--United States--Biography.

Artists.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 407 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2017]

Summary:

Trisha Brown Trisha Brown reshaped modern dance with her interdisciplinary explorations of choreography and visual art. Art historian Susan Rosenberg draws on Brown's archives and numerous interviews to track the artist's deliberate evolutionary development, with special focus on the first half of her five-decade-long career. In addition to creating one hundred choreographies and a ballet, Brown directed six operas and produced a significant body of graphic works. Brown was also the first woman choreographer to receive the coveted MacArthur Foundation Fellowship "Genius Grant." This book discusses the formation of Brown's artistic principles and highlights the cognitive-kinesthetic complexity that defined her approach to dance. Rosenberg uncovers the importance of John Gage's methods to understanding one of the most influential artists of our time. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : Trisha Brown, back to the future

Seeing the score : Trillum (1962)

Memory and archive : A string: homemade, motor, outside (1966)

In a crack between dance and art : "equipment dances" (1968-1971)

The economy of gesture : the "accumulations" (1971-1973)

To diagram, to dance : Locus (1975)

Anthologizing process : Line up (1977)

Subjectivity, desire, and the thinking body : Water motor (1978)

From the white cube to the black box (1979-1981)

The name of the game : Set and reset (1983) and Lateral pass (1985)

Abstraction and theatricality : Newark (Niweweorce) (1987)

Epilogue : Trisha Brown's archival imagination.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Rosenberg, Susan, 1963- author. Trisha Brown

ISBN:

9780819576613

0819576611

9780819576620

081957662X

OCLC:

964303189