Trisha Brown Dance Company.After a 19-year career as a teacher and choreographer, Irene Hultman has returned to the Trisha Brown Trisha Brown (25 November 1936, Aberdeen, Washington, U.S.) is a postmodernist American choreographer and dancer. Brown was born in Aberdeen, Washington, and received a B.A. degree in dance from Mills College in 1958. Brown later received a D.F.A. from Bates College in 2000. Dance Company, where she danced from 1983 to 1988, to become rehearsal director. "The circle is complete," she says. "I am returning home." Since becoming a mother five years ago, Hultman's choreographic work had been devoted to operas in Europe. Her son Karl traveled with her but now that he is in school, she has dropped the opera work to be closer to home. She got a call from Brown last summer offering the position of rehearsal director. The job entails not only overseeing rehearsals, but also helping to plan the repertoire. "It feels like fate," says Hultman. Back in the '80s, when she left her home in Sweden to join Brown's company, "I changed my whole life in one weekend." A dancer who brought a kinetic zest to every role, she has always had an affinity with Brownian motion Brownian motion Any of various physical phenomena in which some quantity is constantly undergoing small, random fluctuations. It was named for Robert Brown, who was investigating the fertilization process of flowers in 1827 when he noticed a “rapid oscillatory . "Her movement suits me because I have a big downbeat down·beat n. 1. Music a. The downward stroke made by a conductor to indicate the first beat of a measure. b. The first beat of a measure. 2. Informal A period of stagnation or inactivity. ." Hultman toured with her own troupe in Europe and also choreographed for ballet companies. She made a Firebird with Gothenburg Opera Ballet in Sweden and worked with the Pina Bausch dancers in Essen. Here in the U.S. she has taught at SUNY SUNY - State University of New York Purchase, Ohio State University Ohio State University, main campus at Columbus; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1870, opened 1873 as Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, renamed 1878. There are also campuses at Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark. , American Dance Festival The American Dance Festival is a six-week summer festival of modern dance performances, and a school for dance currently held at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. , and Sarah Lawrence College Sarah Lawrence College, at Bronxville, N.Y.; primarily for women; chartered 1926, opened 1928 as Sarah Lawrence College for Women; renamed 1947. It is noted for its creative arts program. . She continues to teach at Hunter College and occasionally choreograph. Hultman says that Brown has "a wonderful new bunch of dancers that are so eager and willing. They're hungry." She will also offer a company class, which they haven't had before. "I cant wait to coach. I'm born with a good eye for how the body functions to get the fullest expression." Knowing that Brown is more popular in Europe than the U.S., she says, "I would love to get more into universities in the States so we can cement her work for the future. I want the younger generation to get to know her." She adds, "Trisha has a particular theatricality that is just hers. There's a whole drama going on but it's very subtle. I want to bring back the visual rhythm--the rock 'n' roll--in Trisha's work." |
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