Trisha Brown Dance Company Launches 2017-18 Season

Trisha Brown Dance Company (TBDC) launches its 2017-2018 season with a busy calendar, showcasing masterpieces and other beloved works by one of the most influential choreographers from the postmodern era. Highlights include a week-long run at The Joyce Theater (December 12-17); live performances at New York City Center as part of the 2017 Fall for Dance Festival (October 2 & 3) and at Lincoln Center as part of Paul Taylor American Modern Dance's 2018 season (March 14, 16, 18 & 20); and touring in the U.S. and France. This fall also features a public Community Memorial honoring the life and work of Trisha Brown presented by Danspace Project. (October 28).

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

2017 FALL FOR DANCE FESTIVAL: You Can See Me

New York City Center; October 2 & 3, 2017

In 1994, Trisha Brown created If You Couldn't See Me, in which she intrigued audience by dancing with her back turned, allowing only glimpses of her face in profile. A year later, she revitalized the concept with You Can See Me (created in collaboration with Bill T. Jones) - a work that blends a mirrored solo with the dynamic tension of barely glimpsed movements. As part of the 14th Annual Fall for Dance Festival, TBDC will give two performances of You Can See Me. www.NYCityCenter.org

THE 33rd ANNUAL NY DANCE & PERFORMANCE BESSIE AWARDS

NYU's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, October 9, 2017

TBDC will make an appearance at The Bessie Awards - NYC's premier awards for dance - performing an excerpt from Groove and Countermove (2000). www.nyuskirball.org/events/the-bessies/

A COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HONORING THE LIFE AND WORK OF TRISHA BROWN

Danspace Project; October 28, 2017

Danspace Project and the dance community at large celebrate the legacy of choreographer Trisha Brown (1936-2017), who altered how we perceive, create, and understand dance since forming her company in 1970. Over five hours, Brown's company alums, colleagues, and admirers will speak, dance, reminisce, and pay tribute to one of history's greatest influencers. This event is free and open to the public and guests may come and go throughout the day. www.danspaceproject.org/calendar/

TRISHA BROWN DANCE COMPANY'S 2017 JOYCE SEASON:

Groove and Countermove, Geometry of Quiet, L'Amour au théâtre

Joyce Theater; December 12-17, 2017

TBDC returns to The Joyce Theater for the first time in 10 years with a program that showcases three pivotal works created between 2000 and 2009 illuminating the choreographer's special connection to music: Groove and Countermove (2000) with jazz sounds by Dave Douglas, Geometry of Quiet (2002) with a haunting flute score by Salvatore Sciarrino, and L'Amour au théâtre (2009) set to an aria from Jean-Phillippe Rameau's baroque opera of the same name. An opening night gala will take place after the performance on December 12. www.joyce.org/performances/trisha-brown-dance-company

Paul Taylor AMERICAN MODERN DANCE: Set and Reset

Lincoln Center, NYC; March 14, 16, 18 and 20, 2018

TBDC will perform one of Trisha Brown's masterpieces, Set and Reset, during Paul Taylor's American Modern Dance's 2018 season at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center (March 14, 16, 18 and 20). Originally commissioned by BAM for the 1983 Next Wave Festival and featuring an electronic score by Laurie Anderson and visual design and costumes by Robert Rauschenberg, Set and Reset features the fluid movement and sharply defined configurations that became a hallmark oF Brown's work and was hailed by The New York Times as "surely the most beloved and irresistible work of postmodern dance." http://ptamd.org

TOUR SCHEDULE THRU DECEMBER 2017

TBDC is keeping a busy tour schedule this fall. They will perform L'Amour au théâtre. Groove and Countermove, and Accumulation at Bard College (September 28 & 29), and Trisha Brown: In Plain Site at Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans (October 13-15) and at ArtPower in La Jolla, CA (October 21 & 22). They will also present work in France at the Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain in Paris (October 20-22) and, in partnership with the Opera de Lille, in Turcoing (November 30), and Lille (December 1, 3 and 4). The company will also appear at Kyoto Experiment 2017 - Kyoto International Performing Arts Festival - to perform Opal Loop/Cloud Installation #72503, L'Amour au théâtre and Groove and Countermove (November 1 & 2).

About Trisha Brown Dance Company:
Trisha Brown Dance Company (TBDC) is a post-modern dance company dedicated to the performance, and preservation of the work of Founding Artistic Director and Choreographer, Trisha Brown. Founded in 1970, TBDC has toured throughout the world presenting the work, teaching and building relationships with audiences and artists alike. When Brown retired as head of her Company in 2013, the Board appointed longtime Company members Diane Madden and Carolyn Lucas as Associate Artistic Directors with the mandate that they present her dances in a variety of spaces, indoors and out, proscenium and alternative; develop, deepen and expand the Company's educational initiatives; and treat the Company's archive as a living organism to be used to better understand her work, in particular, and dance in general.

The Company's Education and Outreach program includes worldwide workshops, master classes, and lecture demonstrations. Licenses of selected works are given to selected educational institutions and professional companies worldwide, and works are regularly restaged on dance students and professional companies. In 2009, TBDC created the Trisha Brown Archive, working with Archive consultants and long-term staff members on cataloguing the ephemera that surround Brown's master works, and the preservation of materials that are indispensable to the Company's working process. www.trishabrowncompany.org.