American composer and trombonist ​Peter Zummo discovered a ​1984 ​recording ​of unreleased material from his ​Six Songs​ suite in his archive. Six Songs was the basis for Lateral Pass​ (Foom 2014), his award winning score for modern-dance choreographer Trisha Brown’s work of the same name. Material taken from Six Songs can also be heard on ​his seminal Zummo with an X (Loris Bend, 1985/Optimo 2012). 

The work is now being released as a new LP, Frame Loop. Recorded live and ​in single takes, it features​ a stellar line-up of longtime Zummo collaborators:​ Arthur Russell on amplified cello, Bill Ruyle on marimba, ​and ​Mustafa Ahmed on congas. Zummo ​plays trombone and euphonium. 

​Zummo describes ​the recording as ‘a​n ​exercise in spontaneous arrangement’. ​He ​mainly ​​hews close to the ​score, ​while from time to time introducing canonic lines ​and variations. Arthur Russell, using his signature amplified cello sound, alternates between ​solos and rhythm playing​. Bill Ruyle vamps on the notation, while Mustafa Ahmed’s improvised percussion ​drives the forward momentum.​ Sometimes the music takes its time ​traversing a sonic landscape; at other points, it ​jumps from one section to another​​. Players'​ decisions ​push and pull the downbeat​; rounds ​emerge, then disappear​. 

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Trisha Brown Dance returns to Brooklyn Academy of Music this October, with an intimate program of three early Trisha Brown works for the 2018 Next Wave Festival. The solo work Ballet (1968) was one of Brown’s first experiments with rope walking (it was created two years before the iconic work Man Walking Down the Side of a Building (1970)). Then, the Peter Zummo Ensemble performs Zummo’s original score for Working Title (1984), another of Brown’s early engagements with suspended bodies and a precursor to Lateral Pass (1985). The program also includes Pamplona Stones (1974), a duet originally created and performed by Brown and collaborator Sylvia Palacios Whitman.

BAM/Next Wave Opening Night Gala Program
Wed, Oct 10

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Please join us for TBDC's 2018 Gala, honoring:

Sylvia Palacios Whitman

for her collaboration with Trisha Brown in the original production of Pamplona Stones (1974)

and

Peter Zummo

composer of the score for Working Title (1985)

Wednesday, October 10, 2018, 7:30 - 11:00pm
Brooklyn Academy of Music: BAM Fisher, 321 Ashland Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217

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September 16, 2018 – February 17, 2019
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

For a brief period in the early 1960s, a group of choreographers, visual artists, composers, and filmmakers gathered in Judson Memorial Church, a socially engaged Protestant congregation in New York’s Greenwich Village, for a series of workshops that ultimately redefined what counted as dance. The performances that evolved from these workshops incorporated everyday movements—gestures drawn from the street or the home; their structures were based on games, simple tasks, and social dances. Spontaneity and unconventional methods of composition were emphasized. The Judson artists investigated the very fundamentals of choreography, stripping dance of its theatrical conventions, and the result, according to Village Voice critic Jill Johnston, was the most exciting new dance in a generation. Through live performance, film, photography, sculptural objects, musical scores, poetry, and archival materials, Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Donetraces the history of Judson Dance Theater both in and outside the church, from the workshops that took place there to other spaces around downtown New York.

The program in the Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium is organized into multiple-week segments, each of which focuses on the work of one artist: Yvonne Rainer, Deborah Hay, David Gordon, Lucinda Childs, Steve Paxton, and Trisha Brown. Additionally, a video installation of related material, edited by the artist Charles Atlas, will be on view. In the final weeks of the exhibition, Movement Research, an organization with a direct lineage to Judson, will hold classes and workshops.

The exhibition is organized by Ana Janevski, Curator, and Thomas J. Lax, Associate Curator, with Martha Joseph, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Media and Performance Art. Performances are produced by Lizzie Gorfaine, Producer, with Kate Scherer, Manager, Performance and Live Programs.

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This is an exciting and unique opportunity for the Rochester community to witness the choreography of the legendary choreographer/performer Trisha Brown. There will be a question and answer session after the performance on Thursday and a public reception after the performance on Friday.

Professor of Dance Emerita Jacqueline Davis has secured a grant from the New York State DanceForce to bring Trisha Brown’s work to Brockport, Rochester’s audiences, and a new generation of dancers. The company will share their process with student dancers, and is offering a lecture demonstration, open to the public, in Strasser Studio located in Hartwell Hall, at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, September 4.

Wednesday, Sept. 4, 10:00 a.m Lecture Demonstration
Thursday, Sept. 5, 7:30 p.m., Q&A to Follow
Friday, Sept. 6, 7:30 p.m., Public Reception to Follow

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June 22 - July 7, 2018

A tribute to the Trisha Brown (1936-2017) which will include an exhibition entitled: Trisha Brown: an American in Montpellier, a screening of In the footsteps of Trisha Brown a film by Marie-Hélène Rebois, and a workshop with dance workshop with TBDC alumnus Lance Gries teaching Brown's iconic: Set and Reset.

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The inaugural European Trisha Brown Dance Company (TBDC) Intensive. The five day workshop is led by Associate Artistic Director, Diane Madden. 
Diane outlines the week: “The Spoleto Intensive offers an immersion in Trisha Brown’s choreographic style as a means of engaging each student’s artistic voice. Through a physical and compositional dance practice that builds from internal to external, simple to complex, we will move through technique, repertory, improvisation, composition and performance, culminating in an open studio showing of the weeks work. "

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Summer Intensive Resgistration

Eden Expressway
537 Broadway
New York, NY 10012

Monday-Friday

Week I : June 18th-June 22nd
12:30-2:30pm Technique Class
3:00-6:00pm Workshop

Week II : June 25th-29th
12:30-2:30pm Technique Class
3:00-6:00pm Workshop

In parallel with the exhibition / installation Trisha Brown, an American woman in Montpellier in which he participates, Fabrice Ramalingom, associate artist at the Agora, an international dance city, offers an workshop around the choreographic writing process of Trisha Brown. Lance Gries, one of Trisha Brown's most acclaimed dancers and teacher, will lead this workshop and offer an immersion into the singular composition process of Set and Reset which requires each performer to engage in as an improviser, creator and builder.

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