TBDC actively promotes the performance and of Trisha’s choreography by professional and student dancers around the globe.
The Company’s Education and Outreach program includes worldwide workshops, master classes and lecture demonstrations. Selected works from Trisha Browns 40 years of repertory are licensed to educational institutions and professional companies worldwide and are regularly restaged with dance students and professional companies in the USA and abroad.
This season TBDC further partners with several institutions of higher education worldwide, including New York University, Centre National de Danse Contemporaine, Angers (France) and Belgium’s professional training program P.A.R.T.S.
Current Educational Licensing Projects
Bard College - Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
The last year of a 3-year residency at Bard College which includes a year-round teaching presence, interdisciplinary courses offered through the undergraduate Dance & Film departments, and the Center for Curatorial Studies graduate program. In addition, to workshops, open rehearsal, lectures and culminates with a company performance season of current repertory.
Dancewave - New York, NY
Jan 2018-May 2018
Current TBDC dancer Leah Ives will create a staging of “Set and Reset/Reset” in New York City 15-18 year old students of Dancewave (http://dancewave.org/) culminating with 2 performances on May 17 & 18, 2018.
The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, School of Dance – Hong Kong, China
Feb 26-April 28
Associate Artistic Director Diane Madden will create a staging of “Set and Reset/Reset” with students from the HKAPA. The project will consist of morning technique class, afternoon rehearsals and performances that will take place at the end of the residency.
Centre National de Danse Contemporaine - Angers, France
April 16-28
A two-week workshop on Trisha Brown Repertory. It will consist of a morning technique class and an afternoon repertory workshop.
Emory University – Atlanta, GA
2017-2018
This year long residency hosted by the Emory Dance program began with a “Creativity Conversation” featuring Associate Artistic Director Carolyn Lucas and TBDC alumni Jamie Scott in September. The conversation can be viewed on YouTube. While on campus, Jamie taught a series of created a staging of "Solo Olos" with the Emory Dance Company, that was performed as part of the company's fall concert in November 2017. In April 2018, the Trisha Brown Dance Company will perform "Trisha Brown: In Plain Site," a site-specific work, on the Emory Campus.
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts – New York, NY
June 11-15
Daily Classes and workshops open to the public and students from NYU. Classes all week will be focusing on Trisha Brown’s movement principles and repertory, with a lecture demonstration from TBDC Alumni.
NEW YORK CITY CLASSES
In 2018 TBDC will be partnering with Movement Research to offer weekly company class at Eden’s Expressway in New York City. Providing the opportunity for the NYC dance community to take class with TBDC company members taught by company Alumni.
Core principles of Brown’s work, whether aesthetic, compositional, or kinetic, are taught via the creative and physical practices of past and current TBDC dancers. Each teacher offers a unique focus and range of personal experience related to their understanding of Trisha’s choreographic sensibility, with the goal of empowering students in their artistic pursuits.
WINTER & SUMMER INTENSIVES
Intensives offer students a steady and deep learning of Brown’s style through both current and former company dancers. Classes focus on technique, repertory, and specifically engaging with Brown’s rich archive of multidisciplinary work to uncover new creative outlets and help students accomplish individual creative goals. Each Intensive offers students tools to deepen their knowledge of technical principles, compositional structure, forms, improvisation and performance. This is achieved through classes, video showings, written materials and end-of-week showings.
