2026 Summer Intensive
Intensives offer students a steady and deep learning of Brown’s body of work through both current and former company dancers. Classes focus on technique, repertory, and specifically engaging with Brown’s rich archive of multidisciplinary work to uncover new creative outlets and help students accomplish individual creative goals. Each Intensive offers students tools to deepen their knowledge of technical principles, compositional structure, forms, improvisation and performance. This is achieved through classes, video showings, written materials and end-of-week showings.
WHEN:
JUNE 8 - 12, 2026
WHERE:
NYC
SCHEDULE:
10:00AM-12:00PM: Technique Class
12:00PM-1:00PM: Lunch
1:00PM-4:00PM: Repertory
REGISTRATION & FEES:
Registration is now closed.
Early Bird Discount EXTENDED through April 30: $465
Regular Rate: $500
Student Discount: $375 (4 spots available through April 30)
First come, first serve; then, waitlist opens for available spots after registration closes.
Please email Cecily Campbell at c.campbell@trishabrowncompany.org to reserve a student rate.
All participants must be 18 or older, No partial registration at this time.
For any questions, please email Cecily Campbell at c.campbell@trishabrowncompany.org.
CLASS DESCRIPTIONS:
Morning session: This release-based contemporary technique class will focus on weight sensing/shifting, multi-directionality in the body and space, modes of attention, and graduated falling through movement. We will begin with warming and priming to prepare for improvisational structures, and repertory phrase learning. We will play with Trisha Brown's sensibilities of time and spatial organization/patterning while we practice the clear specificity of her movement vocabularies.
Afternoon session: We’ll dive into Trisha Brown’s Foray Forét (1990) through learning phrase work and improvisational prompts from the original process. Working closely with the archive of the original work, we’ll use Brown’s methods to create our own interpretation of the opening section, “Corridor.” Come ready for big, detailed, and playful dancing.
