Trisha Brown Dance Company

One of the most influential choreographers of the postmodern era, Trisha Brown redefined where and how dance could exist — onstage, offstage, and everywhere in between. This special, immersive evening activates the newly renovated spaces of 92NY as it invites you into her world.

The experience unfolds as you move through the building in small groups, encountering Brown’s work up close and from multiple vantage points — part performance, part installation, part living archive.

In the Weill Art Gallery, Floor of the Forest (1970) transforms the space into a sculptural landscape of ropes and suspended clothing, where dancers climb, weave, and hover between gravity and release. In the round in Warburg Lounge, Locus Trio (1975) reveals Brown’s intricate, radical approach to structure and movement. Elsewhere, video, live performance and unexpected encounters animate the building, echoing Brown’s long history of creating work in galleries, on rooftops, and in public spaces.

The journey continues in Kaufmann Concert Hall and the performance shifts to the proscenium stage, where the dancers transition the audience from immersive experience into Brown’s more formal work. Three works — Line Up (1976), Water Motor (1978), and Working Title (1985) — offer a sense of the range that made her one of the defining artists of postmodern dance. It’s a rare chance to experience Brown’s work across scales, settings, and modes of attention — an “only at 92NY” encounter with one of the great choreographic minds of the last century.

Presented in New York’s historic home for modern dance, the evening reflects Brown’s enduring connection to the city and her radical reimagining of space, place, and performance.

This performance is part of the Harkness Mainstage Series’ Home season, exploring how dance maps the shifting terrain of home, identity, and belonging, and the borders – visible and invisible – that shape us.