© Peter Moore

REPERTORY/ Rulegame 5

In this dance five performers proceed along seven paths demarcated by seven rows of masking tape laid down in an area of 21 by 21 feet.  Starting erect, each performer must lower his/her height so that when they reach the seventh path they are at their lowest possible height (possibly on their stomachs).  This adjustment should be made at equal intervals on a scale of one to seven.  The performer may pass another performer parallel to themselves only if he/she is crouched lower than those players on the “up” side and higher that those on the “down” side. 

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

CHOREOGRAPHY:

Trisha Brown

SOUND:

Verbal instructions between performers to achieve the correct height for passage.

COSTUME:

Street clothes

LENGTH:

10-15 minutes

Performers:

5 dancers

ORIGINAL CAST:

Trisha Brown, Walter de Maria, Simone Forti, Alex Hay, Olga Kluver, Steve Paxton, Robert Rauschenberg, Joseph Schlichter

NY PREMIERE:

First New York Theater Rally (television studio formerly used by CBS), New York NY USA, May 5, 1965

US PREMIERE:

Humboldt State College, Humboldt, CA, April 13, 1964

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