The masonry of movement.

From: The Boston Herald | Date: January 30, 1998| Author: Campbell, Karen | Copyright information

Trisha Brown Dance Company at the Emerson Majestic Theatre, Boston, last night.

A bstract choreographer Trisha Brown once described herself as a bricklayer with a sense of humor, and it's actually quite an apt metaphor. Though her work is crafted with layers of finely chiseled movement conscientiously built into a rigorous formal structure, it seems to unfold with dazzling unpredictability and a remarkable fluidity laced with an undercurrent of wit.

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