CALENDAR/ PERFORMANCE & EVENTS

Boston, MA • February 13-14, 2026 • Vivo Performing Arts • TICKETS
Chatham, NY • February 18-19, 2026 • PS21 Center for Contemporary Performance • TICKETS
Brooklyn, NY • February 26-28, 2026 • Brooklyn Academy of Music • TICKETS
Hamburg, Germany • March 12-14, 2026 • Kampnagel • TICKETS
Beverly Hills, CA • May 7-9, 2026 • Wallis Annenberg Center • TICKETS

Making their Vivo Performing Arts debut, Trisha Brown Dance Company brings a program spanning the visionary postmodern choreographer’s groundbreaking career—from her early explorations of movement to her later masterpieces. 

Glacial Decoy, Brown’s first work for a proscenium stage, is a mesmerizing fusion of dance and visual art. With a backdrop of Robert Rauschenberg’s dreamlike photographs, dancers shift across the stage, their precise yet abstract movements mesmerizing. "Son of Gone Fishin'" is a complex and intricate highlight from Brown's Unstable Molecular Structure cycle. Brown compared the emergence of patterns in the work to the ripples of a stone cast into water. Out of the most precise chaos, patterns emerge and recede in a kind of interference. In Rogues, two dancers engage in a loose yet deliberate game of mirroring and variation, their playful exchanges revealing Brown’s genius for structured spontaneity.

Fascinating, brilliant, witty: don’t miss Trisha Brown Dance Company’s debut on our stages!

In Plain Site sees Trisha Brown Dance Company and PS21 working together for the first time to bring a bespoke collection from the company’s repertoire into Chatham’s newly restored Masonic Hall at dusk, amplifying Brown’s endless affinity for naturalizing movement to the physical environment. 

For decades Brown’s work has fearlessly explored different relationships to space and site for dance. Never frozen, her work adapts profoundly to its environment, its time, and condition, allowing patterns of relationship, body, light, and space to play, repeat, and iterate.

As part of Robert Rauschenberg's centennial celebrations, join us for a conversation exploring the artist’s creative relationships with Trisha Brown and Merce Cunningham and the lasting impact of their collaborations on both dance and visual art. Presented just ahead of Trisha Brown Dance Company’s performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, this event also marks the upcoming public opening of the Trisha Brown Dance Company archive at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. 

Rauschenberg’s visionary stage and costume designs played a pivotal role in shaping postmodern performance. His collaborations with both Cunningham and Brown helped dissolve boundaries between disciplines, creating some of the most iconic moments in 20th-century dance. 

This conversation moderated by Merce Cunningham Trust Scholar-in-Residence Nancy Dalva, brings together leaders who now steward and shape those legacies: 
Carolyn Lucas, Associate Artistic Director, Trisha Brown Dance Company 
Andrea Weber, Director of Licensing and Operations Manager, Merce Cunningham Trust
Francine Snyder, Director of Archives, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

Together, they will reflect on the artists’ creative intersections, Rauschenberg’s impact on the stage, and the vital role of archives in preserving and reimagining dance history.

Photo Credit: Set and Reset. Photos©Beatriz Schiller. Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Fifty years after its BAM debut, the Trisha Brown Dance Company returns to the opera house to honor the centennial of one of its most influential collaborators: Robert Rauschenberg, the visionary artist behind the stage designs for Set & Reset—Brown’s watershed work from the inaugural Next Wave Festival in 1983.

Experience Set & Reset, hailed as an “instant masterpiece” (The New York Times) and featuring music by Laurie Anderson, alongside Merce Cunningham’s Travelogue, a collaboration with Rauschenberg and composer John Cage. Last performed by a professional company in 1979, Travelogue marks the first time a Cunningham dance has been staged by the Trisha Brown Dance Company. Don’t miss this rare convergence of some of the world’s most revolutionary artists.