TBDC actively promotes the performance of Trisha’s choreography by professional and student dancers around the globe
The Company’s Education and Outreach program includes worldwide workshops, master classes, and lecture demonstrations. Selected works from Trisha Brown’s 40 years of repertory are licensed to educational institutions and professional companies worldwide and are regularly restaged with dance students and professional companies in the USA and abroad. TBDC partners with several institutions of higher education worldwide, including Cal Arts (CA), LASALLE College of Arts, Singapore (China), New York University (NY), Biennale College Danza, Venice (Italy), London Contemporary Dance School (United Kingdom), Yale Dance Theater (CT), Barnard College (NY), Bard College (NY), The New School (NY), New York University (NY), Rutgers University (NJ), The College at Brockport (NY), Bates College (ME), Emory University (GA), Sarah Lawrence College (NY) and the professional training program P.A.R.T.S., Brussels (Belgium).
Current Educational Licensing Projects
Continuing TBDC's long relationship of teaching Trisha's work at P.A.R.T.S., an integrated aspect of the P.A.R.T.S. curriculum, TBDC Dancer Leah Ives and Alumni Sam Wentz recently worked with the students to create their own reimagining of Son of Gone Fishin'(1981), based on the phrase, structure and set. The students will be joined by Jamie Scott in October 2021 to work with Trisha's Solo Olos(1976).
In January and February 2021, Trisha Brown Alumni Judith Sanchez-Ruiz worked with students at La Manufacture in Lausanne, Switzerland, on a workshop focusing on introducing the students to Trisha's movement and process within Glacial Decoy (1979).
In February 2021, TBDC Dancer Leah Ives is teaching a workshop at Columbia College Chicago, open to the students of the college and professional dancers. Focusing on Glacial Decoy(1979), they are learning phrase material and exploring ways in which their virtual experience has the same sense of play Trisha gave the limitation of the proscenium in the original form.
In 2020, TBDC Alumni Kathleen Fisher was an instructor at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris to work with the students on Set and Reset/Reset. Though the pandemic caused the performance to be staged for streaming, the students continued to perform the work with live staged performances through Spring 2021.
