Dancer enters wearing a papier-mâché skirt fixed in a sit-down position and a helmet in the shape of a duck’s head. She walks in a crouch across the space and sits down in a chair. A violent fight breaks out in the audience. When calm is restored, the duck-lady steps into a pair of logging boots that are bolted to a metal frame. Four men hoist the apparatus with dancer and careen it around the space turning it over in a cumbersome sort of flight. - Chronology of Dances, The Dance with the Duck’s Head, (1968), Trisha Brown Archive
CHOREOGRAPHY:
Trisha Brown
SOUND:
The sounds of a “violent fight” at the beginning of the dance
Visual Design:
Trisha Brown
COSTUME:
Trisha Brown; Papier-mache duck’s head with feathers, papier mache brassiere, and a papier-mache skirt
LENGTH:
20 minutes
Performers:
7 dancers
ORIGINAL CAST:
Trisha Brown; with four "carriers", Steve Carpenter, Peter Poole, Elie Roman, Melvin Reichler and two "fighters" David Bradshaw, Joseph Schlichter
NY PREMIERE:
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, December 6, 1968