Douglas Dunn and Trisha Brown

A detailed Summary of Douglas Dunn and Trisha Brown

Trisha Brown was born in 1936, in Aberdeen, Washington. She studied with Anna

Halprin, another famous dancer, while a dance major at Mills College. Trisha Brown went

to New York in 1960, and in 1962 became a founding member of the Judson Dance

Theater. A few years later she organized her own company, which was incorporated in

1970. In that year she also became a founding member of the Grand Union, an

improvisational dance theater company.

In her dances, Brown uses ordinary movements in extraordinary circumstances.

She works in structured improvisation and describes her choreographic approach as

similar to that of "a brick-layer with a sense of humor".

One of Trisha Brown's first dances was called "Falling Duets" (1968). This piece

demands alertness, ingenuity and good reflexes as two performers take turns falling and

` One of Trisha Brown's techniques is called "accumulation" .This is dancing like

adding links to a chain. Each movement is a new link and then the whole sequence is

repeated again from the beginning. Later on the dancer rotated gradually, eventually

making a 360 degree turn. The dancer also performed the chain in different positions

and personalities. These are obvious when they dance together. Dunn, taking after

imagery off paying attention to them." Dunn doesn't make a dance until he meets his

presented by Danspace Project. It depicts utopian cooperative living through the

the Grand Union, and performed with it from 1970 to 1975. In 1971 he began his own

effect on the dance as a whole. A famous quote of hers relating to this dance and it's

performed solo in the US and in Europe for a while.

This technique is sort of like Functional Movement. It's a logical progression of

dancers because they can't do it. "Watching them" he says "interests me". It amazes him

This is dance movement imagery as well as mime imagery. He doesn't have a personal

descend to the floor and, later rise and carry their legs through at full speed. The fourth

2hops and a fall down, but wouldn't give them the beats or the order to do it in. This way

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