REPERTORY/ Foray Forêt (1990)

Foray Forêt…is one of her most sophisticated, subtle and delicate and also one of her most elusive [works]. Even for a choreographer like Brown, who likes to disturb the order of things, this one fractures our cozy notions of esthetic perception.

- Mike Steele, Star Tribune

Ms. Brown’s last collaboration with Robert Rauschenberg, remains one of the more requested works in the repertory. Foray Forêt features gold costumes and an open stage. Most notably, it is accompanied by a marching band engaged locally at each performance venue, playing John Philip Sousa music outside the walls of the theater. This piece marks the beginning of Ms. Brown’s elegant and mysterious Back to Zero cycle, in which she pulled back from external virtuosity to investigate unconscious movement.

CHOREOGRAPHY:

Trisha Brown

SOUND:

Local marching band

VISUAL DESIGN:

Robert Rauschenberg

COSTUME DESIGN:

Robert Rauschenberg

LIGHTING:

Robert Rauschenberg with Spencer Brown

LENGTH:

28 minutes

Performers:

9 dancers

ORIGINAL CAST:

Liz Carpenter, Lance Gries, Nicole Juralewicz, Kevin Kortan, Gregory Lara, Carolyn Lucas, Diane Madden, Trish Oesterling, Lisa Schmidt, Shelley Senter, David Thomson, Wil Swanson

NY PREMIERE:

New York City Center, New York, NY, March 5, 1991

US PREMIERE:

Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, November 2, 1990

WORLD PREMIERE:

Biennale de la Danse de Lyon, Lyon, France, September 22, 1990