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Show ARTS Sunday January 14 1996 Trisha Brown Cerebral, Accessible By HelenF HE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE In modern-dance circles, the name Trisha Brown is synony- mous with the avant garde. A founder of the now-legendary Judson Dance Theater in the ear- ly 1960s with choreographer Merce Cunningham, composer John Cage and artist Rauschenberg, Robert Brown oncetra- versed rooftops, walls and lakes in pursuit of new ways of moving Kingsbury Hall renovation, first expected to cost $7 million, is now put at $10 million and performing. Tower Diminishes Classic Kingsbury Hall you've ever wanted to diminbuilding even a good journey to the 59 feet wide and only 28 feet deep. By the by, the newstagewill have a “‘basket-weave’ floor, es- CITYVIEW pecially resilient for ballet dane at the Universi and look ers, No splinters Andthere will be new state-of the art stage lighting, rigging and sound systems take a long at Kingsbury Completed in 1927 at a co: st of 75,090, this long-familiar f theater arts, Since this columnist is in increasingly rickety condition, he bi music and public lectures on cam pus is an auditorium into which approxir nately 1.800 people can It is faced overall with imecolored terra cotta, A sei Sat : 4 juartet of tall columns standing oo stairway f are bove ts broad entry TinatWtecaiieets the pillars are E nin style a style not vite 4g De ae cornice and den. ing with the But jut ppenrane! C inin nb appea. never neve mind those small detail. Architects Edward. Anderson and Lorenzo S' Young designed aH Oe ampus their hall, a landmark on which long the centered at has no argument with many new improvements, such as the addi- JACK GOODMAN managing director of the Pioneer Theatre Company. Pioneer, situ . ated ted a a few blocks away. is, as3 )you must know. our {own's major non- long had a unity, now broken (if not destroyed) by the monstrous new, overly tall stage and scenery addition just grafted onto the north endof 69-year-old Kingsbury Without a doubt. the hall was utdated in the days when Paul Cracroft ran things in the aging hall. It may even have been old hat when Lila Eccles Brimhall trod its boards. Yours truly certainly doesn't to poke pen or typewriter nto the affairs of such worthy irts organizations as Ballet West Ririe-Woodbury, Repertory Dance Theater and other outfits which may use the facility. More ver, this column hopes to steer clear of any argument between campus folks such as General Manager Gr ¢ Geilman and mar keting manag numbers. Geoffrey Panos bury and their opposite such as Chris Lino. lishments “The tall new structure that (it cams to me at least) painfully di minishes the look of the Kingsbury Hal! is one classic major re- Utah Centennial. Originally ex- ject. the new cost, according to Joan O'Brien's Salt Lake Tribune article of Dee. 11, 1995, is now put at $10 million Quite afacelift The new Kingsbury now has a sizable new stage, a tall new fly loft. a new backstage dock area for unloading scenery from trucks when major companies vis: it our town, new dressing rooms. new rehearsal rooms, a new Green Room” and one of those orchestra pits that rise or fall me. chanically. This columnist, then a barefoot stripling, gaped and gasped at one many years ago at ( werly ornate Roxy Theatre. It’s the tall fly loft that no longer ski or climb mountains This reporter was not aroundin the early days of Kingsbury Hall when Winston Churchill, Eleanor Roosevelt and Robert Frost occupied center stage. I do ll Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald making thescene, as well as Mae stro Abravanel and his mellow lads andlassies. Mostly, as you will have gath ered fromall this verbiage, | am chiefly injured — in my delicate sensibilities that is — by the sud- den sight ofthat tall tower, twice as high as old Kingsbury. Alas, I was equally aggrieved by the way the huge Pan-American building on Manhattan's Park tral office building Those businessmen/architects got what they deserved — both Pan Am and the New York Cen tral went broke. At least the Uni versity bucolic campus scene centering at old Kingsbury last out the century, If statistics interest you, thefly tower (where scenery can be hoisted) is 84 feet high, rising Avenue wiped outthe scale of the lantern topped 35-story New York Cen in the main, intrudes on theonce: of Utah seems likely to along with Kingsbury Hall Jack Goodman has been asso above a stage that is 50 feet deep ciated with The Salt LakeTrib. by 120 feet wide. The old cramped but much-used stage was une as a staff or free-lance writer for 49 year ! Nothing to © Gold Seals fromNational Water JAYYNN IT'S YOUR CHOICE: @ Full-Portrait Photography f acclaimed Brown: the latter set to ‘Musical Offering Her approach to dance may be cerebral, but her work has not beeninaccessible or underappreciated. Brown, 58, has received numerous prestigious awards. Among them: the $25,000 Samuel H. Scripps AmericanDance Festival Award in 1994, a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation in 1991, and the Dance Magazine Award in 1987 According to an article in The New York Times, Brown's newest work, “M.0.” (thetitle a pun re ferring to the musical compos tion and to the term modus operandi), has elements of herearliest work. reminiscent The choreographersaid sheis not consciously rummaging through herpast for inspiration She does, however, have an in + WINTER (SALE wow ES | Don't forget your Valentine! || Fashion Place Mall 627-5665 266-5665 The Trisha Brown Company will perfc orm at Weber State Univers! ity’s Brown- ing Center, Ogzden Satur: day at 8 p.m. T ickets range from $15 to $ 30, with discount rates available Brown also will present master classes at the university on Friday. Space is F limited; call the office of ; cultural affairsat 626-6570 for information. Later, she began t ‘o traditional elements troupe, founded ir add more Brown's 1970, was made up only of w omen until 1979, and she did not use music at all until 1981, preferr ing to dance in silence Before °M.0.,” she graphed to classical had choreo. music only once before — for the dance se. quences in a production of Bizet's Carmen,” directed by Lina Thecritics agreed. When the piece premiered in New York last summer, New York Times dance critic Anna Kisselgoff called the 55-minute ensemble wor! k “a monumental and brain-tickling dancepiece. Herfirst foray into Baroque music is of such staggering com- plexity andbrilliant design that it makes a great deal of other choreographyto Bach look like child’s play.” Kisselgoff wrote If you couldn't see me,” a 10minute solo created by Brownin 1994, is as elusive as the choreographer herself. Brown is known for being passionate about her work and private about herlife The solo is thefirst piece she constructed for herself in 15 years. What we could never see, Margo Jefferson wrote in The New York Times, “was what a performernormally lives by: her face, and the front view of her body.’ Set to a sparse electronic sound score by Robert Rauschenberg (who also designed herpale, al- and-a-half or so that I have less son and Robert Ashley M.O. as Brown describes embracin, the poly rhythms of Bach, while developi ng an intri cate structure of its own Stephen Petronio, t he first man puts the spotlight on Brown's years ahead of methan I have be- hind me. But I've neverfelt more full ofideas, ambitions andpossi- bilities,’ Brownsaid Brown, a native of Aberdeen. Wash., began her formal dance training at Mills College in North- to dance in Brown’s company told The New York Times, “When most transparent gown), the piece back, which aecordingto one crit- ic “becomesanobject of suspense and fascination.’ Thereis an exceptional purity about her choreography,” Kissel goff wrote, ‘andit was on spell ern California and began choreo- [heardthat Trisha was dancingto bindingdisplay in this premiere graphing in New York in the early 1960s. She deliberately reduced Bach, I thought, ‘Do we really want to see another ¢ dance to this Jefferson wrote: “It was a brave and honorable experiment in female self-portraiture. Andit dance to minimalist movements: walking, skipping, running ieMNT TIME XONING *CRAWFORD & DAY'S 73RD ANNUAL WINTER SALE GOING ON NOW Titae TA Com eG ey Reet PES einiriinrmears Aree COS AMCLF ECREta eiAy\ 804-487-5737 music?’ Yet Trisha approaches every problem in su ha particu was deeplypleasurable to watch IA CG Cats C@)8) BNEW es hs Epa y, Ce OR ee aS Vie as PERS dS. cot Rha Ogden City Mall lar way If anybodycan do something fresh with Bach, she can. @ At WeberState Wertmuller. She has more typi cally worked with contemporary composers such as I aurie Ander- SWRUaOR Me te JoanneSavio Trisha Brownperforming “If you couldn't see me” in 1994. creasing awareness ofthe passage of time. I've realized in the last year- MAD be era *# WINTER SALE * WINTER SALE + ea i by “If you couldn't see me “M.O. Bach's works a ke; = Do it EXACTLY as you want! _277-5665 Brown Company at Weber State University’s Browning Center entrance. This should ease the climb for oldsters such as | who es Coto Cottonwood Mall Those new ways will be inevidence this week at the Utah debut of the New York-based Trisha pects our town is big enoughto house two major theatrical estab For a free consultation, call Enviro - Heaith @ 296.6717 G20. ing and new ways of dancing. and nis UNMA CHED in the Valentine's Full-Lengths Families 4 Individuals flesh around the bones,” said Charles Reinhart, director of the American Dance Festival. “She has originated new ways of mov- plaza. trio of paths will lead toa broad outer stairway with three landings en route to the theater Stop Paying More For Bottled Water than You Do For Gas! Stop Cooking and Showering In Chlorine! . a Purest Water Filtration Possible For As Little As $50 a Year! ® @ @ @ able to build it up again and put crete bridge below the accessible contemporary 08 Classic plays. ade and Ionic portico. This trio look, art of dancein the'60s, have been critically pected to cost some million as a renovation and restoration pro- 1 Trishais one of the few choreographers who, after reducing the The programwill feature two new PTC bas: a splendid record ofs produc profit professional theater. suit” or our much-touted 1996 of buildings, differing in style but nevertheless having an “academ: elevator, rampsand special provisions for handicapped people The new construction work under As Brownhas grown older, she hasretainedher individuality, yet changer way at the southside of the buildcenters on placement ofa con- the adjacent Student Union and, of course, the Park Building, withits white marble fa tion offine newtoilet facilities, an particles in a liquid or gel Ed Utah ran- dom movement of microscopic : of Hall scientific Brownian motion: | ou EP a sans SAE Pay oe HVS MALNIM * ATVS ATINIA * FTVS WALNIM * ty thoughtful LE‘ WINTER SALE # WINTER SALE‘# W If One critic went so far as to compare her choreography with the A DELTACENTER BCTaRChtaeoe ax[ee 1) BO ey De Lets 4 Outlets, The Delta Center, oreeea9 Pade oR mane tea tt |
