Dance Among the Water Lilies (Danse dans les Nymphéas) • Trisha Brown, CCN (French National Choreography Centre) – Ballet de Lorraine, Twelve Ton Rose
7 pm and 8.30 pm, Salle des Nymphéas
© Laurent Philippe
A leading light in American postmodern dance, the dancer, choreographer and visual artist Trisha Brown (1936–2017) was famous for her sustained and mercurial style of dancing and her fluid movements built around “structured improvisations”, “letting go” and “release”. Trisha Brown’s name alone evokes fluidity, experimentation, organic dance, rigor and liberty, inverted movement, etc. The choreographer’s works feature in the repertoires of the most prestigious ballet companies. Recreated in 2022 by the Trisha Brown Dance Company along with the CCN - Ballet de Lorraine, Twelve Ton Rose (1996) entered their repertoire on 2 March 2022 at the Opéra national de Lorraine (Nancy).
Twelve Ton Rose
Choreography: Trisha Brown
Recreated in 2022 by the Trisha Brown Dance Company along with the CCN - Ballet de Lorraine
Preceded by Access to pleasure
Choreography and performers: Petter Jacobsson and Thomas Caley
© Laurent Philippe
Ten Tone Rose
”Twelve Ton Rose (1996) is the second piece in Trisha Brown’s “musical cycle” set to music by Anton Werben (Opus 5, 7 and 28). Its title is a play on words inspired by twelve- tone rows (dodecaphony), a musical composition technique devised and developed by Arnold Schoenberg and repeatedly used by Webern. In a suite of ensemble pieces, duos and solos, the choreography develops a clear and poetic relationship with the musical structure. Like Webern, Trisha Brown and her company developed a great interest in counterpoint and its many experimental possibilities. (…) the core lines of Twelve Ton Rose introduce a single movement to the piece, whilst the remainder of the movements draw their sources from Trisha Brown’s vast repertoire – multiplied, superimposed, telescoped, stretched and condensed. The resulting choreography is a departure from the composer’s strong central tonal leanings, towards a more abstract and lyrical style. " Kathleen Fisher, the Trisha Brown Danse Company’s coach
Choreography: Trisha Brown
Coaches retained for 2022:Kathleen Fisher, Abigail Yager, Ming-Lung Yang, Katrina Warren
CCN - Ballet de Lorraine’s coach: Isabelle Bourgeais
Visual design:Trisha Brown
Costume:Burt Barr
Retained for 2022’s costumes:CCN - Ballet de Lorraine’s costumes workshop
Lighting:Spencer Brown
Music:Anton Webern, Op. 5, Five Movements for string quartetOp. 7, Four Pieces for violin and piano (Movements I, III, IV)Op. 28, String Quartet
Produced at the Arsenal de Metz on 26 November 1996
Recreated in 2022 by the Trisha Brown Dance Company along with the CCN - Ballet de Lorraine, directed by Petter Jacobsson
Entered the repertoire on 2 March 2022 at the Opéra National de Lorraine (Nancy)
Piece for 9 dancers
Duration: 28 mins
Preceded by Access to pleasure
Pretending to inhabit someone else’s dancing body, or simply wanting to … This imitation dance classic is a kind of cover, a very personal version that may question the notions of beauty, age and gender; it presenting a totally vaudevillian duo that titillates the public and redefines the male perspective.
© Nadja Voorham
Choreography and performers: Petter Jacobsson and Thomas Caley
Duration: 10 mins
Doors open at 6.30 pm
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