Photo © Wayne Hollingworth, 1968
Photo © Julietta Cervantes, 2009

REPERTORY/ Planes

"A film of aerial footage (by Jud Yalkut) is projected on an 18 foot long, 13 foot high wall which has concealed holes spaced at equal intervals across its entire surface. Three performers traverse the surface of the wall in slow motion, giving the illusion of falling through space." - Trisha Brown 

"Planes is an exploration of the corollaries between psychic space and the psychical escape of consciousness beyond the earths’ biosphere. Conceive of the theater as vertical tunnel in which the audience is suspended in planes of rows. The city as centralized magnetic center, whose momentum is perpendicular, becomes the escape valve for a continuous ascent, spanning the poetics of macro- and micro- cosm, culminating in the brief and rapid deceleration of re-entry." - Jud Yalkut

Trisha Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue, 1961-2001, Teicher, Hendel 

CHOREOGRAPHY:

Trisha Brown

SOUND:

Simone Forti

Visual Design:

Trisha Brown

COSTUME:

Trisha Brown; workman's suits altered to be black on one side, and white on the other. When white side was shown to the audience, the dancers seemed to disappear into the film.

LENGTH:

20 minutes

Performers:

3 dancers

ORIGINAL CAST:

Trisha Brown, Michelle Stowell, Simone Forti

NY PREMIERE:

Whitney Museum, New York, NY, March 30-31, 1971

US PREMIERE:

Intermedia '68, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY, February 24, 1968

WORLD PREMIERE:

Gallery L'Attico, Rome, Italy, June 22, 1969

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