In Plain Site

Trisha Brown, an emblematic figure in American post-modern dance, is coming to Athens. A leading figure in the movement that irreversibly transformed the dance landscape in the early nineteen sixties, she boldly broke all the rules, having her dancers communicate from the rooftops of buildings, walk down museum walls and execute symmetrical, geometric choreographies on rafts floating in the middle of a lake. Space is always a natural ally in her works, a catalyst, a crucial framing, a favoured partner.

The experimentation that began back then in New York when dancers, composers, poets and visual artists set out together in search of new representational codes has never stopped. Fifty years on, Trisha Brown is still fascinated by and experimenting with the relationship between space, movement and the viewer. “In Plain Site” is different from her previous site-specific works in so far as it presents a collage of fragments from a half century of emblematic choreography. This unique retrospective will be created in collaboration with the National Museum of Contemporary Art, especially for the institution’s new premises. Extracts from earlier, more abstract works like “Accumulation” from 1971 will be combined with more theatrical pieces such as 1990’s “Foray Foret” in an unexpected encounter with the Athenian public which puts the abundant natural light of the new museum space to good use. A tribute to the ground-breaking work of the choreographer who put dance into the everyday life of the city.