Trisha Brown at the Drawing Room.(choreographer exhibits drawings)(Brief Article)

From: Art in America | Date: April 1, 1999| Author: Kino, Carol | Copyright information

Trisha Brown showed a small group of pen and pencil drawings made between 1973 and 1995. Brown, of course, is the Minimalist choreographer who started out in the 1960s as a member of the Judson Dance Theater, and who recently won a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Drawings, it turns out, have always been intrinsic to her choreographic process. This show included some made as adjuncts to that pursuit, and others created expressly as art works.

The drawings were installed ...

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