TRISHA BROWN DANCE COMPANY AT NORTHROP




Trisha Brown Dance Company
Friday April 35, 2008

Trisha Brown Dance Company performed three long works (about 30 minutes each). FORAY FORET and PRESENT TENSE before intermission, then I love my robots. FORAY FORET begins with dancing in total silence. It feels as if there should be music, but soon you concentrate on the movement and the shapes form by the dancers. This is a small moving piece with lots of graceful movements. Then we hear music outside the auditorium. It sounds like the UofM marching band is practicing outside the space. The music is very faint, but loud enough to hear it, then it gets a bit louder and the it moves around. Almost as if the marching band was moving through the hallway all around the concert hall. This couldn't be a mistake. Could it? It has to be part of the piece. Linda and I notice people squirming. So yes, the work was done in collaboration with the University of Minnesota Alumni band (so much for reading the program before the concert). So was it effective? The work was very nice, I am not sure about the music. It was somewhat distracting. Not quite part of the dance. This work had costume and set design by Robert Rauschenberg. After a short pause we saw Present Tense set to music by John Cage and set and costumes by Elizabeth Murray. This was probably the work I liked the least. The set used a large back drop with a colorful pop motif. The costumes were also pretyy colorful. Nothing wrong, but it didn't necessarily hit the spot.
During intermission we renewed the season subscription for next year (lots of great things to come. Especially exited about Merce Cunningham's Once performing at a Quarry in St Cloud)
The second half included I love my robots, a quirky piece choreographed by Trisha Brown set to great music by Laurie Anderson. This was a much more modern work (it was created in 2007). The dance includes two long motorized poles (the robots) that move around the stage with the dancers








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