Biographies
Trisha Brown Dance Company
Trisha Brown Dance Company (TBDC) is a postmodern dance company dedicated to the performance and preservation of the work of Trisha Brown and projects related to her legacy. Established in 1970, TBDC has toured throughout the world presenting work, teaching, and building relationships with audiences and artists alike. www.trishabrowncompany.org
The Trisha Brown Dance Company is supported by the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Imperfect Family Foundation. Other major support is provided by The Shubert Foundation, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, Jody and John Arnhold, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Hampton Family Foundation of Oregon Community Foundation, and the Harkness Foundation for Dance.
The Trisha Brown Dance Company is also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
TBDC also extends special thanks to Trisha Brown Company Board Chair Dorothy Lichtenstein, The Trisha Brown Company Board of Trustees, and the Company’s Individual Donors.
Trisha Brown
Trisha Brown (Founding Artistic Director and Choreographer) was born and raised in Aberdeen, Washington, graduated from Mills College in Oakland, California, and studied with Anna Halprin before moving to New York City in 1961. Brown, along with like-minded artists, pushed the limits of choreography and changed modern dance forever. In 1970, Brown formed her company and explored the terrain of her adoptive SoHo. She engaged collaborators who are themselves leaders in music, theater, and the visual arts, including visual artists Robert Rauschenberg, Donald Judd, and Elizabeth Murray, and musicians Laurie Anderson, John Cage, and Alvin Curran, to name a few. With these partners, Brown has created an exceptionally varied body of over 100 dance works.
Brown is also an accomplished visual artist; her drawings have been seen in exhibitions, galleries and museums throughout the world, she is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in NYC.
Trisha Brown is the first woman choreographer to receive the coveted MacArthur Foundation Fellowship “Genius Award.” She has been awarded many other honors including five fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the NY ‘Bessie’ Lifetime Achievement Award, the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, and the Dance/USA Honors Award. She has been named a Veuve Clicquot Grande Dame, Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the government of France.
Noé Soulier
Noé Soulier’s (he/him) work explores choreography and dance in different settings. The series of choreographic pieces including Removing, Faits et gestes, Second Quartet for the company L.A. Dance Project or The Waves, try to activate the physical memory of the spectators with movements that aim at objects or events that are absent, thus suggesting more than they display. In conceptual projects such as the book Actions, Movements and Gestures or the performance Movement on Movement, he analyzes and describes different ways to conceive movements that aim to offer multiple ways to experience the body. The choreographed exhibition Performing Art, created at Centre Pompidou, reverses the usual position of dance in the museum by choreographing the installation of a selection of works from the collection by professional art handlers on stage. His site specific work Passages was presented by Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels at The Arts Center in March, 2024.
Born in Paris in 1987, Noé Soulier studied at the National Ballet School of Canada and PARTS in Brussels. He received a master’s degree in philosophy at La Sorbonne University (Paris IV) and took part in Palais de Tokyo’s residency program: Le Pavillon. In 2010, he won the first prize of the competition Danse Élargie, organized by Le Théâtre de la Ville in Paris and Le Musée de la danse. In July 2020, he became director of the Centre national de danse contemporaine in Angers.