Photo © Isabel Winarsch/documenta 12, 2007
Photo © Agathe Pouponey, 2008
Photo © Nina Vandenberghe, 2008

REPERTORY/ Floor of the Forest

Two people dressed and undressed their way through (the structure described in set description).  It was done as naturally as it could be done.  A normally vertical activity performed horizontally and reshaped by the vertical pull of gravity. It was strenuous. Great strain and effort to support the body weight while negotiating buttons and zippers.  We rested at times, and when we rested hanging down, an article of clothing became a hammock. The audience ducked down to see the performers suspended or climbing below the frame, or stretched upward to see the activity above. - Trisha Brown, Trisha Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue, 1961-2001, Teicher, Hendel

CHOREOGRAPHY:

Trisha Brown

SOUND:

Ambient, environmental

Visual Design:

Trisha Brown

COSTUME:

Shorts and tank tops

LENGTH:

30 minutes

Performers:

2 dancers

ORIGINAL CAST:

Trisha Brown, Carmen Beuchat

NY PREMIERE:

In and around 80 Wooster Street, New York, NY, April 18, 1970

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