Trisha Brown: In Plain Site
Trisha Brown Dance Company for Beach Sessions Dance Series
August 20, 5:30 PM EST
Beach Sessions Dance Series presents a site-responsive performance by Trisha Brown Dance Company on Saturday, August 20, at Rockaway Beach. Starting at 5:30 PM EST, the Dance Company will traverse the shoreline from Beach 97th Street to Beach 110th Street with Trisha Brown: In Plain Site, a program highlighting a selection of seminal Early Works by Brown. These works, chosen specifically to respond to the beach and its shoreline, will culminate in a re-staging of Brown’s iconic Opal Loop (1980). Audiences are invited to follow the dancers as they move along the various sites of Rockaway Beach.
This program celebrates Brown’s ongoing source of inspiration - the natural world and its properties. Whether on a traditional stage or an outdoor public space, Brown’s dances always achieved vastness and atmosphere that extended well past center stage and the moving body. Fluidity, chaos, pressure, gravity, and the organic are always considered in the choreography, sound and set design. By bringing these dances to the beach, the amalgamation of the natural world, these elements become active collaborators of the work.
To learn more about Trisha Brown: In Plain Site at Rockaway Beach, click here.