Solo Olos (1976) is a piece comprising four dancers performing three phrases forwards and backwards through the unrehearsed verbal instructions of a fifth dancer. [1] Originally performed by Trisha Brown in 1976 as a “solo movement palindrome,” at Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Lepercq Space, the work premiered the following year with five dancers—also at Lepercq Space—as part of Line Up (1976). [2]
1. Program notes, “Trisha Brown Company.” Performance. New York: Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lepercq Space, March 10, 1977.
2. Susan Rosenberg, Trisha Brown: Choreography as Visual Art (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2017), 176.
CHOREOGRAPHY:
Trisha Brown
SOUND:
Ambient
Visual Design:
Trisha Brown
COSTUME:
White long-sleeved t-shirt and white cotton drawstring pants
LIGHT:
Edward Effron
LENGTH:
10 minutes
Performers:
5 dancers
ORIGINAL CAST:
Trisha Brown, Elizabeth Garren, Wendy Perron, Judith Ragir, Mona Sulzman
NY PREMIERE:
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lepercq Space, New York, NY, March 10, 1977