Posts Tagged ‘ArtPower! UC San Diego’
‘Tis a Gift to Be Simple: Trisha Brown’s “In Plain Site”
Trisha Brown’s dance, in “In Plain Site,” is plain the way Shaker art or a Zen rock garden is plain: Brown stripped movement to its essence, creating series of clean, simple gestures, often performed in silence. It’s simple and impeccable … “heroism of the ordinary.” And it moved me to tears.
Read MoreFrom Euclid’s Triangles to Threesomes with ODC Dance
A dancer spins inside a square of light as if summoning the ancients to appear. More dancers in swimwear variations seem to leap from worn pages. We visualize triangles and there are threesomes. If that weren’t enough, a dancer draws long lines on the stage with a flour like substance for them to slide on…
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