Biography

Published in 2011

For over 40 years, legendary American choreographer Trisha Brown has pushed the limits of contemporary dance, changing it forever with her pioneering approach to light, space, gravity, geometry, technology and perception in her compositions. In 1962, she co-founded the avant-garde Judson Dance Theater and eight years later formed the Trisha Brown Company, the world-renowned ensemble, based in New York, that she still heads today. Among her early groundbreaking works were the gravity-defying Man Walking Down the Side of a Building and the still popular Set and Reset, featuring costumes and set design by frequent collaborator, Robert Rauschenberg. In 1998, she choreographed her first opera, Monteverdi’s Orfeo. Trisha Brown’s latest transformative creations include I love my robots and L’Amour au théâtre. She presented a mix of new and older works at the Chaillot theatre in Paris in October this year. The first woman choreographer to receive the coveted MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the current Dance Mentor (2010-2011) is also a highly regarded visual artist. She was made a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in 2004. More recently she was given the Capezio Dance Award.