REPERTORY/ Structured Improvisations with Simone Forti and Dick Levine

“The rehearsals leading up to this concert were engaged in the invention of a structure or game plan that was understood by all participants. One structure that came from Simone was to identify something in the room that could function as a score that we would interpret simultaneously.  We wanted answers to the questions of what to do in time, space, and intensity.  In performance, one dancer pointed in a random direction with eyes closed.  I must say my heart sank when I traced the point to a barrel-shaped wood-burning stove.  But, in those days, I was hot out of a cannon in improvisations, especially in front of an audience, so, likely, fire, smoke, and chimneys were just right. Simone told me that (during rehearsals) we used to do the “floor-plans of fairytales in about five seconds” as a structure and might have included them (in the performance) as well.  I (also) used this structure for Inside (in) 1966.” - Trisha Brown, Trisha Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue, 1961-2001, Teicher, Hendel

CHOREOGRAPHY:

Trisha Brown

SOUND:

Silence and verbal improvisation

COSTUME:

Dance work clothes

LENGTH:

45 minutes

ORIGINAL CAST:

Trisha Brown, Daniel Lepkoff, Simone Forti, Dick Levine

NY PREMIERE:

Chambers Street Loft Series, Yoko Ono's Loft, 112 Chambers Street, New York, NY, May 26-27, 1961

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