Trisha Brown Informance Jacobs Pillow Dance 1986

Rare footage of a Trisha Brown s Informance : a hybrid lectureperformance from 1986 that focuses on the dance Set and Reset with music by Laurie Anderson and designs by Robert Rauschenberg. Narrating the dancers actions, and eventually joining in herself, Brown reveals the choreographic structures, stories, and inquiries that inform the dance, asking, for example, how one might remain invisible while standing in the center of the stage. EXCERPT from Trisha Brown Informance. Recorded at Jacob s Pillow August 10, 1986. Performers are Trisha Brown, Dianne Madden, Lance Gries, Jeffrey Axelrod, Irene Hultman, Carolyn Lucas, and Randy Warshaw. TRISHA BROWN graduated from Mills College in Oakland, California, studied with Anna Halprin and taught at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Moving to New York City in 1961, Brown was instantly immersed in what was to become the postmodern phenomena of Judson Dance Theater. Her movement investigations found the extraordina