November 14, 15 - Abu Dhabi, UAE - The Arts Center at NYU

January 17 - Charleroi, Belgium - Charleroi Danse

January 23-25 - Berlin, Germany - Berlin Festspiele

January 29 - Málaga, Spain - Museo Picasso

March 12, 13 - London, UK - Sadler's Wells

Above Left: Trisha Brown performing Accumulation with Talking (1973). Photograph © 1979 The Estate of Nathanial Tileston; Right: A page from the transcript of Trisha's performance of Accumulation with Talking plus Water Motor (1979) at Maison de la Culture de Woluwe, Brussles, November 1, 1979.

The Trisha Brown Dance Company is pleased to announce the acquisition of the Trisha Brown Archives by the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library.

by Amanda Kmett'Pendry

Read the New York Times article about the placement here.

As we celebrate our 50th anniversary this year, our partnership with the New York Public Library represents a major step towards securing Trisha's legacy for future generations. The collection is filled with materials related to Trisha’s groundbreaking life and career, including her personal and professional papers, and choreographic notes. The Trisha Brown Dance Company records also form part of the Archives, and include correspondence, collaborator contracts, cue sheets, lighting plans, costume specifications, performance programs, posters, photographs, music scores, and much more.

Notably, the collection documents Trisha’s work from inception to completion with extensive audiovisual records, including performance documentation, performance for camera, rehearsal footage, and audio recordings. Three hundred Building Tapes exist within the Archives, representing some of the most exciting aspects of the collection. These recordings document how Brown built her work in the rehearsal studio, and each tape is connected to a series of Building Notebooks and scores, also part of the collection.

In 2009, the Trisha Brown Dance Company formalized the Trisha Brown Archives, hiring former company member Cori Olinghouse, who served as Archive Director from 2009 to 2018, to oversee a team of personnel in cataloguing and preserving Trisha Brown's oeuvre. In collaboration with choreographer David Thomson, who also danced with the company, Cori established the database that the Trisha Brown Archives continues to use today. We'd like to recognize and thank our archives team for their enormous work.

Anne Boissonnault, Archive Director
Ben Houtman, Audiovisual Archivist
David Thomson, Archive Technical Consultant

The placement of the Trisha Brown Archives with New York's premiere repository opens up the company's holdings to the dance community, scholars, and the broader public in a manner Trisha had always hoped for. She would be thrilled.