Trisha Brown: Man Walking Down the Side of a Building

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INTERNATIONAL SUMMER FESTIVAL 2024

This site-specific performance is one of the most minimalist yet spectacular works by the artist Trisha Brown (1936-2017), who made dance and art history with her drawings and over 100 choreographies. In 1970, Brown had a dancer equipped with mountaineering armor walk vertically down a building in Manhattan in order to draw attention to the simple and natural act of walking by shifting it into an unnatural scenario. The performance is characteristic of Brown's work within New York's Judson Dance Theater, where she founded postmodern dance with choreographers such as Lucinda Childs by creating choreographies from everyday movements and individual gestures. In Hamburg, MAN WALKING DOWN THE SIDE OF A BUILDING will now be shown three times over two days on the exterior façade of the Galerie der Gegenwart - realized by the Californian vertical dance company BANDALOOP, who will perform the work worldwide as artist-in-residence performers of the Trisha Brown Dance Company.