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Overview
"I have the same adrenaline and heartbeat going as I enter the paper as I do going onstage."
While best known for her career as an avant-garde dancer and choreographer, with nearly 100 dance works to her credit, Trisha Brown consistently sought to integrate the visual arts with her performance practice. She collaborated with artists on set and costume designs for her performances, including the likes of Robert Rauschenberg, but for many years she produced her own body of work, primarily in the form of drawings, that meld the art of dance and the visual arts.
Trisha Brown was born and raised in Aberdeen, Washington. She 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, where she became a founding member of the Judson Dance Theater. In 1970, she co-founded the dance collective Grand Union and formed the Trisha Brown Dance Company.
In 2008, the Walker Art Center organized a major survey exhibition of Brown’s drawings. Curated by Peter Eleey, Trisha Brown: So That the Audience Does Not Know Whether I Have Stopped Dancing traveled to the Mills College Art Museum in Oakland and Musée d’art Contemporain de Lyon.
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Trisha Brown: Choreographing Life
Museu de Arte de São Paulo10.13–11.15.20
Learn moreTrisha Brown: Choreographing Life is the first solo exhibition in South America dedicated to the pioneering choreographer, dancer, and artist, featuring works produced between 1963 and 2005. The exhibition inaugurates the cycle Histories of Dance at MASP, bringing together a set of 156 works: photographs and films of choreographies by Brown and her company, the Trisha Brown Dance Company (formed in 1970), as well as drawings and scores/diagrams that represent her dances.
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Trisha Brown: It's a Draw / Live Feed
Walker Art CenterIn conjunction with the exhibition Trisha Brown: So That the Audience Does Not Know Whether I Have Stopped Dancing, modern dance legend Trisha Brown improvises movements across a large piece of paper placed on the Medtronic Gallery floor. -
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