Virtual Experiences In Lockdown Times

The Theatre Times: In 1971, in New York’s SoHo neighborhood, a site-specific dance performance — one in which the ‘site’ in question encompassed a dozen rooftops over a roughly ten-block area — was staged by the Trisha Brown Dance Company (TBDC), one year into its inception. Considered as a seminal work that is part of founder Trisha Brown’s “revelatory early oeuvre,” Roof Piece could be described as a movement in transmission. On a roofscape strewn with standpipes, chimney-tops and fire escapes — so inviting an obstacle course for latter-day traceurs — contemporary dancers in sheer red held fort on terraces and parapets that stretched out into the distance.