Set And Reset/Reset
Restaging project by Trisha Brown Dance Company with Candoco Dance Company
“elegant, exciting and very playful” The Stage
The Set and Reset/Reset Project examines the shifting nature of choreography in relation to underlying structures that anchor a dance to itself. The process of re-construction (as opposed to replication) is a negotiation between freedom and limit – an exploration of possibility as the dancers create a new version of Trisha Brown’s landmark choreography. Abigail Yager (Trisha Brown Dance Company)
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Trisha Brown Dance Company premiered Set and Reset in 1983 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City. It is the Company’s signature work and confirmed Trisha Brown as a leader of abstract choreography. For the creation of Set and Reset/Reset, Candoco Dance Company is an integral part of both the creative process and the end result. Former Trisha Brown Dance Company member Abigail Yager taught the Candoco Dance Company dancers exact sequences from the original choreography and later guided them in an extensive improvisation process whereby they used the same set of instructions that Brown gave to her Company in 1983: keep it simple, act on instinct, stay on the edge, work with visibility and invisibility, and get in line.
Set and Reset/Reset is a combination of the original and the Candoco dancers choreography.
CREDITS
Choreography of Set and Reset (1983): Trisha Brown
Direction of Set and Reset/Reset (2011): Abigail Yager
Music: Laurie Anderson (music used with kind permission from Canal Street
Communications/Laurie Anderson Studio)
Costumes: Celeste Dandeker-Arnold OBE (based on the original design by Robert Rauschenberg in 1983)
Set: David Lock (based on the original design by Robert Rauschenberg in 1983)
Lighting Design: Chahine Yavroyan
The restaging project Set and Reset/Reset has been co-commissioned by Dance Umbrella 2011