The Trisha Brown Dance Company will be making their Dance Theater Workshop debut this month (photo by Mark Hanauer)
Dance Theater Workshop
219 West 19th St.
March 16-26, $25
212-924-0077
www.dtw.org
www.trishabrowncompany.org
Over the course of its more-than-forty-year history, the Trisha Brown Dance Company has performed in big and small houses all over the world, including last year in France, Tunisia, England, and Brazil in addition to the Guggenheim and already this year in Sweden, France, Spain, and MoMA. So it’s hard to believe that the New York-based troupe has never before appeared at Dance Theater Workshop, where they will at last be making their debut March 16-26. The program includes two works from Brown’s Back to Zero Cycle, the slow, subtle For MG: The Movie , with live music played by score composer Alvin Curran, and Foray Forêt, featuring visual design and costumes by Robert Rauschenberg and a live traditional marching band. “I make order out of chaos, Bob makes chaos out of order, and where we meet is chaos,” Brown has said of working with Rauschenberg. The evening will also premiere Neal Beasley dancing the 1978 solo piece Watermotor, which only Brown has previously performed. The opening-night performance will be preceded by a Coffee and Conversation gathering, and Brown will participate in a postshow talk on March 25.