Organized around the making, remaking, or unmaking of horizontal lines, resulting in clarity, disorder, clarity, disorder, disorder, clarity, order, disorder, and so on.
- Trisha Brown
Line Up was made by the Company through improvisation, recall, then memorization of material derived from the instructions, “line up.” The continuous forming and reforming of lines causes the dance to hover between order and disorder. Interspersed throughout are line dances and events (moments of organized material) that also appear in Accumulating Pieces (1973) and Structured Pieces I-V (1973-1976), and include such titles as Sticks (1973), Mistitled (5 Minute Clacker) (1973), Spanish Dance (1973), Figure 8 (1974), and Solo Olos (1976). [1]
1. Program notes, “Trisha Brown Company.” Performance. New York: Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lepercq Space, March 10, 1977.
CHOREOGRAPHY:
Trisha Brown
SOUND:
Verbal instructions, metronome, and Bob Dylan’s “Early Mornin’ Rain”
COSTUME:
White long-sleeved t-shirt and white cotton drawstring pants
LIGHT:
Original lighting design by Edward Effron. Redesigned by Spencer Brown in 1990.
LENGTH:
45 minutes
Performers:
5 dancers
ORIGINAL CAST:
Trisha Brown, Elizabeth Garren, Wendy Perron, Judith Ragir, Mona Sulzman
NY PREMIERE:
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lepercq Space, Brooklyn, NY, March 10, 1977
WORLD PREMIERE:
Fêtes Musicales de la Sainte-Baume en Provence, Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, France, August 1, 1976