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James Turrell: Knowing Light
Light Reign, James Turrell SkyspaceTrisha Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue, 1961-2001
Stroum Gallery
March 20, 2004 – July 18, 2004
In the early 1960s, avant-garde dancer and choreographer Trisha Brown began incorporating everyday movement into her dances and, at the same time, collaborating with visual artists, creating a fascinating mix of visual art and choreography on stage. Working with such artists as Robert Rauschenberg, Donald Judd, Nancy Graves, Fujiko Nakaya, and Terry Winters, she developed a complex exploration of dance form. Through dance, Brown investigates the fundamental characteristic of movement: gravity, weightlessness, duration, sequence, and repetition, as well as the interactions between art and life. In this multi-media exhibition, Brown’s collaborative works were chronicled with drawings, paintings, photographs, video projections, costumes, set elements, and other artworks that led to or emerged from Brown’s work with visual arts.
“Dance and Art in Dialogue”, a “living” exhibition, included performance, workshops, lectures, and a residency with the Trisha Brown Company. Collaborating with the UW Dance Program, Cornish College for the Arts, and the UW World Dance Series, the Henry organized an intriguing mix of additional programming. Brown’s 1970 dance “Floor of the Forest” was performed weekly by UW and Cornish dance students using a set installed at the Henry.