Photo © Babette Mangolte, 1972

REPERTORY/ Primary Accumulation

A supine figure generates 30 moves in 18 minutes.  The figure rotates 45 degrees each on the last two moves, making a 90-degree turn with the completion of the phrase.  the phrase is repeated until, in the last two minutes of the dance, a 360-degree turn is achieved and all sides of the dance/dancer revealed. - Trisha Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue, 1961-2001, Teicher, Hendel

CHOREOGRAPHY:

Trisha Brown

SOUND:

Sweeping sounds of the actions on the floor

COSTUME:

First use of what would become the “regulation” costume: white long-sleeved t-shirt and white cotton drawstring pants.

LENGTH:

18 minutes

Performers:

Trisha Brown

ORIGINAL CAST:

Trisha Brown

US PREMIERE:

Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT, December 01, 1972

WORLD PREMIERE:

Theater Carré, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 13, 2010

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