Flying in a new galaxy: Trisha Brown at the Paris Opera ballet.

From: Dance Magazine | Date: April 1, 2005 | Copyright information

With her arms spread wide, Aurelie Dupont is held aloft, parallel to the ground, against a backdrop of night stars. Manuel Legris and Nicolas Le Riche turn her around her axis like a slow-moving rotisserie. With Laurie Anderson's score and its whispered Polish poem about a bird, this enigmatic lift is the first and last image in O Zlozony/O Composite, Trisha Brown's first new work for the Paris Opera Ballet.

Like other Brown works, O Composite plays with illusions of fli...

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