Casey Kaplan
MATÉO LOPEZ | TIME AGAIN | THE JOYCE THEATER
This season the Trisha Brown Dance Company celebrates Trisha Brown’s Unstable Molecular Structure cycle which introduced the iconic, slippery, sensuous movement style that continues to inspire dancers and choreographers worldwide. In Opal Loop / Cloud Installation #72503 (1980), bodies versed in fluid, seamless sequencing embody spontaneity and abandon, while Son of Gone Fishin’ (1981), accompanied by a raucous Robert Ashley score, reveals Brown’s precise, mathematical approach. The piece radiates outward like ripples from a stone cast into water—a natural metaphor Brown used to describe its severe yet captivating form.
Alongside these landmark works the company proudly presents Time Again, a new commission by Australian choreographer Lee Serle, in collaboration with Colombian visual artist Mateo López, and in partnership with Rolex. Time Again, set to an original score by Australian sound artist Alisdair Macindoe with lighting design by Jennifer Tipton explores cycles of time and the transformative potential of revisiting the past, where each return presents an opportunity to reframe and reshape our choices with a fresh perspective. Longtime collaborators, Serle and López have consistently explored themes of chance, time, encounters, and the connections woven into daily life, offering a contemporary lens through which to engage with Brown’s enduring influence.
“Time Again has choreography credited to Serle in collaboration with the dancers, and much of the non sequitur, limbs-flung-out movement looks a lot like Brown’s. The dance is visually striking, opening with bird sounds and a tableau of four dancers, sitting on their own little lawns of green rectangles, which are soon lifted off the floor and revealed to be woven panels that variously form doorways, huts and walls. (The ingenious set design and the costumes are by Mateo Lopez, another Rolex mentee, with atmospheric lighting by Jennifer Tipton.)”
– Roslyn Sulcas in The New York Times. Read the full article here.
Image:
Ashley Merker and Spencer Weidie in Time Again, a premiere by Lee Serle in collaboration with company dancers.
Photo credit: Julieta Cervantes for The New York Times