Trisha Brown Dance Company has presented the work of its legendary artistic director for over 40 years. Founded in 1970 when Trisha Brown branched out from the experimental Judson Dance Theater to work with her own group of dancers, TBDC offered its first performances at alternative sites in Manhattan’s SoHo. Today, the Company is regularly seen in the landmark opera houses of New York, Paris, London, and many other theaters around the world. The repertory has grown from solos and small group pieces to include major evening-length works and collaborations between Ms. Brown and renowned visual artists.
 
The Company of eight dancers performs in New York and tours worldwide each year, offering unique and inspiring performances each season. In 2011-12, TBDC will tour internationally to France, Italy, Germany, Ireland and Chile and within the United States to California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Arizona as well as performing in its hometown, New York. Every performance offers the chance to introduce Ms. Brown’s work to local audiences in tailored packages that can include master classes, lectures, and informal demonstrations that enhance the Company shows, and outreach programs that help performing arts centers form links with community groups. Classes for elementary and secondary school students offer a hands-on experience of Ms. Brown’s process.

TBDC’s outstanding Education Program provides children, aspiring dancers and young professionals with training in postmodern dance. The Education Program offers classes in technique, repertory, and improvisation, as well as workshops with world-renowned guest artists, as well as fosters the preservation of TBDC’s repertory through restaging projects with Lyon Opera Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet, and Scottish Ballet, and Candoco Dance Company (London), along with universities including Belgium’s professional training program P.A.R.T.S., London Contemporary Dance School, Mills College, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, and New York University, Princeton University, Lyon National Dance and Music Conservatory (France) and Taipei National University of the Arts (China).