Visual art and performance art.
Roof piece trisha brown.
Room roof piece was conceived produced and edited by amanda kmett pendry and jamie scott.
Brown s early works walking on the wall 1971 and roof piece 1971 were designed to be performed at specific sites.
Room roof piece 2020 is a 25 minute video dance based on trisha s 1971 roof piece made remotely by the trisha brown dance company dancers as they continue to explore ways of interacting with the work and each other from afar.
The dance which took place in the compressed architectural space of the structure required spectators to move about the space in order to see every dancer.
In 1970 brown cofounded the grand union an experimental dance collective and formed the trisha brown dance company.
Established in 1970 tbdc has toured throughout the world presenting the work teaching and building relationships with audiences and artists alike.
Tbdc is a post modern dance company dedicated to the performance and preservation of the work of founding artistic director and choreographer trisha brown.
Room roof piece 2020 room roof piece is a 25 minute video dance based on trisha s 1971 roof piece made remotely by the trisha brown dance company dancers as they continue to explore ways of interacting with the work and each other from afar.
Excerpt from trisha brown s room roof piece via trisha brown dance company the original roof piece was inspired by the follow the leader copying in dance classes and rehearsals a mode of.