Trisha Browns Performance Art is both stunning and mind blowing. Trained as a dancer at the avant-garde Judson Dance Theater in 1962. This influence is clear, she uses public spaces as a stage for a piece of work. This interaction takes somewhere familiar and changes how we see and perceive it. Roof Piece took place on 12 different rooftops over a ten-block area in New York City, each dancer transmitting the movements to a dancer on the nearest roof. Browns work makes me think of the mental and physical concept of place. Her juxtaposition of place and simple movement styles offer a tongue-in-cheek humor which brings an intellectual sensibility that challenges the mainstream "modern dance" mindset of this period.It could be said that Trisha Brown is freeing these banal places, renewing them in targeting our thoughts to do so.
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