Trisha Brown. Susan Rosenberg

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      TRISHA BROWN

      TRISHA BROWN

       Choreography as Visual Art

       SUSAN ROSENBERG

      WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

      Middletown, Connecticut

      Wesleyan University Press

      Middletown, CT 06459

       www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

      2017 © Susan Rosenberg

      All rights reserved

      Manufactured in the United States of America

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      Illustrations in this book were funded in part by a grant from the Meiss/Mellon Author’s Book Award of the College Art Association.

      Significant additional funding enabling the book’s visual presentation was generously provided by Mrs. Dorothy Lichtenstein.

The publisher and the author gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Rosenberg, Susan, 1963– author.

      Title: Trisha Brown: choreography as visual art / Susan Rosenberg.

      Description: Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2017 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2016002802 (print) | LCCN 2016033876 (ebook) | ISBN 9780819576613 (cloth: alk. paper) | ISBN 9780819576620 (pbk.: alk. paper) | ISBN 9780819576637 (ebook)

      Subjects: LCSH: Brown, Trisha, 1936– | Choreographers—United States—Biography. | Dancers—United States—Biography. | Artists—United States—Biography.

      Classification: LCC GV1785.B76 R67 2016 (print) | LCC GV 1785.B76 (ebook) | DDC 792.82092 [B] —dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016002802

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      Cover photo: Trisha Brown, Opal Loop, 1980, rehearsal. Photograph Harry Shunk © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2014.R.20).

       Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	1
Trisha Brown, Back to the Future
1 Seeing the Score	12
Trillium (1962)
2 Memory and Archive	36
A string: Homemade, Motor, Outside (1966)
3 In a Crack between Dance and Art	65
“Equipment Dances” (1968–1971)
4 The Economy of Gesture	107
The “Accumulations” (1971–1973)
5 To Diagram, to Dance	151
Locus (1975)
6 Anthologizing Process	183
Line Up (1977)
7 Subjectivity, Desire, and the Thinking Body	202
Water Motor (1978)
8 From the White Cube to the Black Box (1979–1981)	229
9 The Name of the Game	262
Set and Reset (1983) and Lateral Pass (1985)
10 Abstraction and Theatricality	290
Newark (Niweweorce) (1987)
Epilogue