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unusual facts about Trisha Brown


Da gelo a gelo

The choreography for the singers by Trisha Brown was retained for the 2007 Paris production at the Palais Garnier.


Anna Halprin

Halprin, along with her contemporaries such as Trisha Brown, Simone Forti, Yvonne Rainer, John Cage, and Robert Morris, collaborated and built a community based around the fundamentals of post-modern dance.

Dance Umbrella

Recent touring companies have included Merce Cunningham Dance Company (US), Mark Morris Dance Group (US), Rosas (Belgium), Trisha Brown Dance Company (US), Michael Clark Company (UK), Stephen Petronio Company (US), Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance Company (Israel) and Compagnie Montalvo-Hervieu (France).

Elaine Summers

She came to New York in the 1950s and became part of the workshop-group originally initiated by Robert Ellis Dunn that would later be referred to as the Judson Dance Theater in its second term 1962, together with a.o. Trisha Brown, Ruth Emerson, Fred Herko, Sally Gross, Edward Bhartonne, Carolee Schneemann, Gretchen MacLane, Deborah Hay, David Gordon, and Valda Setterfield.

Peter Taub

The MCA Stage has hosted notable dance performers, such as the Trisha Brown Dance Company, most recently in 2011, celebrating the company’s 40th year, Bill T. Jones (2008), and Merce Cunningham (2007); Taub is noted as key player in Chicago’s growth as a dance city.

Site-specific art

Choreographers who have made site-specific contributions to the field of dance include Trisha Brown, Meredith Monk, Ann Carlson, Stephan Koplowitz, Joanna Haigood, and Mark Dendy, among others.


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