Photo Courtesy of Trisha Brown Dance Company

REPERTORY/ Rummage Sale and the Floor of the Forest

Two dancers dress and undress their way through the old clothes attached to the grid while a full-scale rummage sale is conducted beneath them.  The first version of this piece in which the structure was hung at eye level (1970) forced the viewers to crouch down or stretch up (depending on where the dancers were) in order to see the action.  In this version the rummage sale was conducted so as to force the viewers to choose between looking at the dance or getting a bargain, or backing way out to see both from a distance. - Trisha Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue, 1961-2001, Teicher, Hendel

CHOREOGRAPHY:

Trisha Brown

SOUND:

Ambient

Visual Design:

Trisha Brown

COSTUME:

Shorts and tank tops

LENGTH:

45 minutes

Performers:

2 dancers

ORIGINAL CAST:

Carmen Beuchat, Trisha Brown

NY PREMIERE:

New York University Gymnasium, New York, NY, October 22, 1971

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