"Using the simple action of waiting (football style, hands on knees) as a recurrent ‘base,’ the dancers initiated a spontaneous series of interferences - ass-bumping and back-hopping - which were artless, playful excursions in quiet expectancy and unusual surprises.”
-Jill Johnston, Democracy’s Body, Banes, Sally
“[Lightfall] was exhilarating to perform. It was task, in a sense. One of us was to bend over and form a platform with our back to support the other one, and the other one would hop up there. And they had no idea when the supporting platform was going to stand up and dump ‘em. And we whistled back and forth... We didn’t know when the disappearance of our support would happen.”
- Trisha Brown, Trisha Brown Early Works, 1966-1979
SOUND:
Ambient, Simone Forti (whistling)
COSTUME:
Leotard and tights
LENGTH:
unknown
Performers:
2 dancers
ORIGINAL CAST:
Trisha Brown, Steve Paxton
NY PREMIERE:
Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY, January 30, 1963