Trisha Brown Dance Company: a return to pure dance at its best

Trisha Brown Dance Company in Noé Soulier's In the Fall

Trisha Brown Dance Company in Brown's Working Title

By Graham Watts, 17 March 2025

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“in ever-changing configurations of individual and synchronised movement”

Reviewed at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London on 13 March 2025

Working Title (Trisha Brown)

In the Fall (Noé Soulier)

Trisha Brown Dance Company

Catherine Ellis Kirk, Dancer

Two classics and a world premiere from Trisha Brown Dance Company

Carla Escoda, 29th April

Magnificent dancing in Trisha Brown classics from the 1980s and in a new work by her mentee, Lee Serle, transcend less than compelling stagecraft at New York’s Joyce Theater.

***11

Four postmoderns and a newcomer: New York Theatre Ballet at Judson

Carla Escoda, 25th April

At a time when small dance companies in the United States appear to be perched on a live volcano, the tiny, distinguished New York Theatre Ballet recalls the revolutionary postmoderns.

*****

A study on falling: the Trisha Brown Dance Company and Noé Soulier

Katja Vaghi, 23rd January

The Trisha Brown Dance Company closes the Performing Arts Season 2024/25 at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele with Glacial Decoy.

****1

Trisha Brown: in Plain Site

Jeff Slayton, 10th March

The Trisha Brown Dance Company's "In Plain Site Los Angeles" demonstrated how dance can beautifully reflex the art and sculture surrounding it.

*****

Alvin Ailey Dance Theater

Wiebke Schuster, 3rd April

Alvin Ailey American Dance Company in their annual residency at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall

****1

Trisha Brown Dance Company at New York Live Arts

Rachel Rizzuto, 9th April

Rachel Rizzuto reviews the Trisha Brown Dance Company's three older pieces, including Son of Gone Fishin' and a more recent piece, Rogues at New York Live Arts.

***11

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Graham Watts

Graham Watts is a freelance dance writer and critic writing regularly for Dancing Times, Dance Europe, Danza Europa, and many more publications. He regularly writes features for Sadler’s Wells, London Coliseum and La Scala. Chairman of the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle in the United Kingdom and of the UK National Dance Awards he has interviewed many of the greatest names in dance including Maya Plisetskaya, Vladimir Vasiliev, Boris Eifman, Alexei Ratmansky, Andris Liepa, Sir Peter Wright, David Bintley and Dame Gillian Lynne. When not involved in dance Graham is a keen fencer, and has captained the British Sabre team.