This event finished on: 20 October 2010
Nacera Belaza, Jonathan Burrows, Charles Linehan and Ros Warby in conversation with Rosemary Butcher, Ramsay Burt, Eckhard Thiemann and others.
This year’s Dance Umbrella features a number of artists who present a
radically pared down vision of choreography. Despite spanning
different generations and cultural backgrounds, they share
similar concerns: an absence of narrative, scepticism of formal
technique and a resistance to, or redefining of, the theatrical.
Discussing minimalism as a choreographic approach rather than
style, Spectacular Simplicity explores the reasons and methods
which these choreographers use to bring out the essential. The
innovations of Trisha Brown and her Judson Dance Theater
colleagues (including Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, Deborah Hay
and David Gordon), form a starting point for the speakers to
investigate the role of reduction and elimination in choreographic
practice today.
pic: Yvonne Rainer, Trio A (1973)