Choreographer Revolutionized Dance In The 20th Century, Trisha Brown Dies At 80

Trisha Brown, an American choreographer, who's gravity-defying choreography revolutionized dance in the 20th century. At the age of 80, she died at an assisted-living center in San Antonio on March 18.

According to the Daily Mail, her dance company said that Brown has been treated for vascular dementia. Five years ago, Brown retired after decades as a leading light of international dance, choreographing for the Paris Opera Ballet.

The Trisha Brown Dance Company will pay tribute to Brown as one of the most admired and influential choreographers and dancers of her time from avant-garde music to molecular biology, crushed the norms of dance starting in the 1960s. Brown incorporates everyday life to dance resulting to dances that can be performed in unconventional venues like parking lots, rooftops and without sound.

Until later into Brown's career did she create choreography for the traditional stage or with musical accompaniment. In the early 1960s, Brown established herself as a choreographer in the New York dance scene and on 1970, she established her dance company according to The Washington Post.

In the same year, Brown displayed her unusual dance; Brown debuted "Man Walking Down the Side of a Building" where the dancer goes out as if on a stroll but descends at a 90-degree angle from the rooftop. In 1971, "Roof Piece," the dancers are clad in red, performing atop the rooftops of New York's Soho neighborhood to which the choreography is improvised

In 1979, Brown's first work for the traditional stage entitled "Glacial Decoy," where the dancers moved in a mysterious trance which performed in silence but later Brown incorporated music because she was tired of hearing the coughing of the audiences. Brown also collaborated with artists such as the composer Laurie Anderson and painter Robert Rauschenberg, which resulted in the 1983 dance "Set and Reset."

Patricia Ann Brown was born on Nov. 25, 1936, in Aberdeen. Brown studied ballet at Mills College in Oakland, California and graduated in 1958.

Brown's final work premiered in 2011 entitled as "I'm Going to Toss My Arms - If You Catch Them They're Yours."

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