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Who’s Who

Trisha Brown Trisha Brown in Set and Reset, 1996  Photo by Chris Callis.

Trisha Brown Dance Company

Trisha Brown Dance Company has presented the work of its legendary artistic director for over 40 years. Founded in 1970 when Trisha Brown branched out from the experimental Judson Dance Theater to work with her own group of dancers, TBDC offered its first performances at alternative sites in Manhattan’s SoHo. Today, the Company is regularly seen in the landmark opera houses of New York, Paris, London, and many other theaters around the world. The repertory has grown from solos and small group pieces to include major evening-length works and collaborations between Ms. Brown and renowned visual artists. Foray Forêt, photo by Lois Greenfield, 1990.

Now in it’s 45th Anniversary Season, Trisha Brown Dance Company (TBDC) is a post-modern dance company dedicated to the creation, performance, and preservation of the work of Founding Artistic Director and Choreographer, Trisha Brown. TBDC has toured throughout the world presenting the work, teaching and building relationships with audiences and artists alike.

TBDC’s repertory has grown from solos and small group pieces to include major evening-length works. Brown engaged collaborators who are themselves leaders in music, theater, and the visual arts, including visual artists Robert Rauschenberg, Donald Judd, and Elizabeth Murray, and musicians Laurie Anderson, John Cage, and Alvin Curran, to name a few. With these partners, Brown has created an exceptionally varied body of work, with premieres and performances for NYC audiences and international counterparts.

When Brown retired as head of her Company last year, the 76 year old choreographer appointed longtime Company members Diane Madden and Carolyn Lucas as Associate Artistic Directors with the mandate that they develop, deepen and expand the Company’s educational initiatives; present her dances in a variety of spaces, indoors and out, proscenium and alternative; and treat the Company’s archive as a living organism to be used to better understand her work, in particular, and dance in general.

The Company is currently halfway through its three-year Proscenium Works, 1979-2011 tour, which has over 45 major national and international dates lined up through December, 2015 with performances throughout Australia, Belgium, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and within the United States to California, Michigan, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin as well as New York.

In addition to workshops, master classes, lecture demonstrations and archival exhibitions the Company’s Education and Outreach program licenses and restages work on dance students and professional companies. Recent education and restaging projects include Lyon Opera Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, Candoco Dance Company (London), Belgium’s professional training program P.A.R.T.S., London Contemporary Dance School, Mills College, The Live Legacy Project (Dusseldorf) University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Rutgers University, Yale University, Theatre Academy Helsinki (Finland) and Centre National de Danse Contemporaine Angers (France).

TBDC has recently announced it’s relationship with Gibney Dance Center as a Founding Partner for their new space at 280 Broadway to provide a platform for more Company educational opportunities in NYC. The Company now holds our Summer Intensive, Winter Intensive, Master Class Series and Weekly Class Series at 280 Broadway.

In 2016, TBDC will offer a bold reimagining of how the public experiences the work of a great choreographer through a new vision for extending the life of a single-artist dance company with the ongoing presentation of Brown’s masterworks in a highly curated, interactive context at both site-specific and museum locations. Non-proscenium-based performances, screenings, dance education, exhibitions, and dialogues will be programmed with the goal of engaging a broader audience than the theatrical dance audience alone.

The Company will continue to fulfill archive and legacy goals through new education initiatives, restoration of original rehearsal and performance footage, and website expansion, allowing global access to Brown’s commentary, video, and source materials. The archive includes performance and rehearsal footage, sets, costumes, and scores by some of the pre-eminent artists of the era as well as Brown’s notebooks. TBDC will also channel select archival materials into an interactive online media library. To be programmed in the style of a museum exhibition, the media archive’s express purpose is to engage users in creative dialogue with the work in yet another non-theatrical space.

Matthew Feliz Matthew Feliz is the acting Curator & Academic Liaison for the Art and Artifact Collections at Bryn Mawr College. He facilitates class use of collection objects, works on exhibitions and related events.  Matthew has taught courses in Spanish art, Latin American art, modern and contemporary art and the history of collecting at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Swarthmore College and Temple University.  Matthew received a Ph.D. in History of Art from Bryn Mawr College. His dissertation explored the performance, sound, and visual practice of the contemporary artist, Christian Marclay.

Eva Karczag Eva Karczag is an independent dance artist. For the past four decades has practiced, taught and advocated for explorative methods of dance making. Performs solo and collaborative work internationally, and teaches at major colleges and studios throughout the United States, Europe, and Australia. Many of her collaborations involve links across the arts. Her performance work and her teaching are informed by dance improvisation and mindful body practices, including the Alexander Technique (certified teacher), Ideokinesis, and Taiji/Qigong. She danced with the Trisha Brown Dance Company (1979–85) creating original roles in Opal Loop, Son of Gone Fishin’ and Set and Reset, and continues to teach through the company education program in New York and elsewhere. She has a Master of Fine Arts degree (Dance Research Fellow) from Bennington College, Vermont. Through her performing and teaching, she aims to communicate her love of fully-felt dancing and her interest in the practice of being in the moment. Photo by Nienke Terpsma.
 Wendy Perron, author of Through the Eyes of a Dancer, had a 30-year career as a dancer/choreographer and teacher. She danced with Trisha Brown in the 1970s and has written often about Brown’s work since then. For her own company, she choreographed more than 40 works. She has taught at Bennington, Princeton, and Mt. Holyoke among many other schools. In the early 1990s she served as associate director of Jacob’s Pillow, where she directed intensives in postmodern dance. The former editor-in-chief of Dance Magazine, Wendy has also written for The New York Times, The Village Voice, and vanityfair.com. Known as an authority on Judson Dance Theater, she has lectured and given book readings across the country. In 2011 she was inducted into the first Hall of Fame of New York Foundation for the Arts. This year she teaches a graduate seminar in contemporary dance at New York University Tisch School of the Arts and continues to post commentary at wendyperron.com.

Stephen Petronio Stephen Petronio began dancing in 1974 at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Initially inspired by Rudolf Nureyev and Steve Paxton, Petronio was the first male dancer of the Trisha Brown Dance Company (1979–1986). For 30 years, he has honed a unique language of movement that speaks to the intuitive and complex possibilities of the body within the shifting sphere of our current time. Founded in 1984, Stephen Petronio Company has performed throughout the world, including 21 seasons at The Joyce Theater in New York City. Petronio has created over 35 works for his company and has received commissions from many of the world’s most prestigious modern and ballet companies. He has received numerous accolades, including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award. Petronio was also named as The Joyce Theater’s first Artist-in-Residence from 2012 to 2014, and received a 2015 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. Photo by Sarah Silver.

Susan Rosenberg

Susan Rosenberg, a former curator of modern and contemporary art (Philadelphia Museum of Art; Seattle Art Museum), is currently Associate Professor of Art History at St. John’s University, New York, where she also directs the graduate program in Museum Administration. She has contributed to exhibitions and publications dedicated to the work of Christian Marclay, Alice Neel, and Gabriel Orozco, and in 2003 she worked with Trisha Brown to realize It’s a Draw/Live Feed at Philadelphia’s Fabric Workshop and Museum. Her writings on Trisha Brown have accompanied exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Museum/Institute for Research on Art, Tampa and the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany, and have appeared in the journals TDR and October. Her book Trisha Brown: Choreography as Visual Art (1962-1987) will appear from Wesleyan University Press in fall 2016. Rosenberg received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

Brian Wallace Brian Wallace was appointed Director of the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery at Keene State College in June 2015. Most recently the Curator and Academic Liaison for Art and Artifacts and a Visiting Lecturer at Bryn Mawr College, Wallace has held curatorial and teaching positions at the Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz and the Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia. He developed collection- and program-based partnerships across the Seattle area while curator at Bellevue Art Museum, organized a major exhibition on art and technology at the Cooper-Union, New York, for the College Art Association, and started a contemporary art exhibition series at The Computer Museum, Boston.

Wallace has worked with artists, institutions, and audiences on a wide range of exhibitions, publications, artist residencies, public art projects, commissions, and hybrid/collaborative educational programs. Wallace earned a B.A. from Ithaca College and an M.A. at Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies; he served on the College Art Association’s Museum Committee; he currently serves on the board of the Association for Academic Museums and Galleries and on the board of the newly constituted Carolee Schneemann artists’ trust. His current research interests focus on the intersections of art and performance and on the connections between museums and other presenting venues.

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