Trisha Brown Dance Company Announces 2011 Season

Continuing its 40th anniversary celebration, Trisha Brown Dance Company (TBDC) is pleased to announce its New York winter/spring season 2011. Highlights include three days of performances at The Museum of Modern Art in January; the company's debut at Dance Theater Workshop in March featuring the revival of For MG: The Movie (1991) as well as other works; and the first revival of Roof Piece (1971) in partnership with Friends of the High Line, in June.

The Museum of Modern Art (January 12, 15 & 16): MoMA presents Trisha Brown Dance Company as part of its Performance Exhibition Series, a program of live performance and dance in conjunction with the group exhibition On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century. The company will perform Sticks (1973), Locus Solo (1975), Scallops (1973) and Roof Piece Re-Layed , a version of Roof Piece which will spiral up the levels in the Museum's Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium. Roof Piece Re-Layered has not been seen since its premiere in 1971. The On Line exhibition includes works addressing dance and features a drawing by Trisha Brown, Untitled (2007), as well as a video from 1970 oF Brown's iconic piece, Man Walking Down the Side of a Building.

Dance Theater Workshop (March 16-19, 22-26): The company makes its debut at Dance Theater Workshop with two pieces from Trisha Brown's Back to Zero Cycle, the revival of For MG: The Movie which she describes as "a return to simpler forms" and Foray Forêt, (1990), the last of a series of four works created in collaboration with Robert Rauschenberg. MG: The Movie will be presented with live music performed by the score's composer Alvin Curran. Foray Forêt features original visual design and costumes by Rauschenberg as well as a live traditional marching band. Completing the program is Watermotor (1978), a solo dance to be performed by Neal Beasley, the first time this piece has been danced by anyone other than Brown.

The High Line (early June): High Line Art, presented by Friends of the High Line, presents Brown's historic work Roof Piece from 1971, to coincide with the High Line's second anniversary on June 9. Roof Piece took place on twelve different rooftops over a ten-block area in New York City, with each dancer transmitting the movements to the dancer on the nearest roof. The piece will be revived on rooftops adjacent to the High Line. Exact dates and locations of the performance will be announced.

TRISHA BROWN DANCE COMPANY WINTER/SPRING SEASON 2011
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street
(212) 708-9400
January 12, 15 & 16 at 2:00 & 4:00pm
Hours: Wednesday through Monday: 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Friday: 10:30 a.m.-8:00 p.m. Closed Tuesday
Museum Admission: $20 adults; $16 seniors, 65 years and over with I.D.; $12 full-time students with current I.D. Free, members and children 16 and under. (Includes admittance to Museum galleries and film programs). Target Free Friday Nights 4:00-8:00 p.m.

Dance Theater Workshop
219 West 19th Street between 7th & 8th Avenues
Wed thru Sat, March 15-19 at 7:30pm
Tue thru Sat, March 22-26 at 7:30pm
Coffee & Conversation: March 16 at 6:30pm
Post-Show Talk: March 25
Box Office Phone: (212) 924-0077 or buy online at www.dtw.org

The High Line
Manhattan's West Side from Gansevoort Street to West 20th Street
Dates and Times to be announced.

About On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century:
On Line explores the radical transformation of the medium of drawing throughout the twentieth century, a period when numerous artists subjected the traditional concepts of drawing to a critical examination and expanded the medium's definition in relation to gesture and form. In a revolutionary departure from the institutional definition of drawing, and from the reliance on paper as the fundamental support material, artists instead pushed line across the plane into real space, thus questioning the relation between the object of art and the world. On Line includes approximately 300 works that connect drawing with selections of painting, sculpture, photography, film, and dance (represented by film and documentation). In this way, the exhibition makes the case for a discursive history of mark-making, while mapping an alternative project of drawing in the twentieth century. The exhibition includes works by a wide range of artists, both familiar and relatively unknown, from different eras of the past century and from many nations, including Aleksandr Rodchenko, Alexander Calder, Karel Malich, Eva Hesse, Anna Maria Maiolino, Richard Tuttle, Mona Hatoum, and Monika Grzymala. The exhibition is organized by Connie Butler, The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art, and Catherine de Zegher, former director, The Drawing Center, New York.

About Trisha Brown:
Trisha Brown (Artistic Director and Choreographer) graduated from Mills College in 1958, studied with Anna Halprin and taught at Reed College in Portland before moving to New York City in 1961. Instantly immersed in what was to become the post-modern phenomenon of Judson Dance Theater, her movement investigations found the extraordinary in the everyday and challenged existing perceptions of what constituted performance. In 1970, Ms. Brown formed her company and made the groundbreaking work, Man Walking Down the Side of a Building, one of many site-specific works created in, around and hovering over the streets and buildings of her SoHo neighborhood. Her first of many collaborations with Robert Rauschenberg, Glacial Decoy, premiered in 1979 followed by Set and Reset in 1983 with original music by Laurie Anderson. Ms. Brown has created nearly 100 dance works since 1961 including several operas and is currently at work on a new operatic evening featuring the music of Jean-Philippe Rameau. Increasingly recognized as a visual artist, her drawings have been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions including Documenta 12 in Kasel, Germany, Sikkema Jenkins Gallery (2009) and most recently as part of the Year of Trisha - a celebration of her entire body of work at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Ms. Brown was the first woman choreographer to receive the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Other honors include the Brandeis University's Creative Arts Medal in Dance, two John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships, a New York State Governor's Arts Award, and the National Medal of Art. In 1994 she received the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award and she has been named a Veuve Cliquot Grand Dame. Ms. Brown was named a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France in 1988, elevated to Officier in 2000 and to Commandeur in 2004. She served on the National Council on the Arts from 1994 to 1997. She has received numerous honorary doctorates and is an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Trisha Brown is also serving as a mentor in 2010-11 through the international Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.