Performance
MANITOGA / The Russel Wright Design Center
Garrison, NY
August 31, 2025
Al Held Foundation
Boiceville, NY
September 28, 2025
Brandi Norton and Tara Lorenzen Perform Trisha Brown Dance Company Works
Brandi Norton and Tara Lorenzen in rehearsal for Privet, 2023. Choreography by Jodi Melnick at the Al Held Foundation. Photo credit: James Autery.
MANITOGA / The Russel Wright Design Center, Garrison, NY
August 31, 2025
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Al Held Foundation, Boiceville, NY
September 28, 2025
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River Valley Arts Collective is pleased to present restagings of Trisha Brown Dance Company's iconic works Accumulation, 1971 and Locus, 1975 by former company members Brandi Norton and Tara Lorenzen.
At MANITOGA / The Russel Wright Design Center, the choreography will be integrated into the House, Studio and Woodland Garden envisioned by Russel and Mary Einstein Wright and presented in conjunction with All the Light and Shadow exhibition curated by Alyson Baker. For the fourth staging of dance performances at the Al Held Foundation, Brandi Norton's reconstruction of Accumulation will engage Held's largest black and white painting in the foundation's collection, Noah's Focus I, 1970, while Tara Lorenzen will perform Locus in the landscape Al Held designed over a forty year period.
Organized by Olga Dekalo, Director and Curator, in partership with MANITOGA / The Russel Wright Design Center in Garrison, NY and the Al Held Foundation in Boiceville, NY.
TARA LORENZEN is originally from the hills of West Virginia. Upon graduation from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance, she became a member of the Repertory Understudy Group under Merce Cunningham where she created an original role in “EyeSpace” as well as reconstructing earlier works such as “Rune” and “Summerspace". She went on to work with Stephen Petronio Dance Company from 2008-2011. She has worked with Kimberly Bartosik, Christine Elmo, Shen Wei Dance Arts, Ashleigh Leite, Todd Williams, Christopher Williams, Rene Archibald, Anna Sperber, Beth Gill (“Electric Midwife” Bessie award for Outstanding Production 2011), Maria Hassabi (“Plastic” Bessie award for Outstanding Production 2016), Jodi Melnick, Maria Simpson, and Joan Jonas. Since 2011, Tara has performed and taught master classes for the Trisha Brown Dance Company all over the world. She has recently assisted in the reconstruction of Trisha’s “O zlozony/O composite” (originally created for the Paris Opera Ballet), on the Pennsylvania Ballet and taught a "Set and Reset/Reset" workshop at the Centre National de la Danse in Pantin, France. She has served on the board of Trisha Brown Dance Company since 2023. Tara is a certified Cunningham Technique teacher and continues to work closely with both the Cunningham Trust and John Cage Trust. She is the Associate Professor of Dance and Director of the Bard Dance Program.
BRANDI NORTON (Iñupiaq) is Curator of Public Programs at the Center for Indigenous Studies at Bard College. She is working to bring dedicated Indigenous arts and curriculum enrichment programming to the Bard community and public-facing events. Prior to Bard, Norton was an early childhood educator in New York City, before becoming the Director of Development and Education at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park. Norton is a former Trisha Brown Dance Company member, where she danced for nine years and originated eight roles. She assisted Brown at documenta 12 in setting Accumulation on more than 40 dancers. Norton was also the co-founder of the dance company OtherShore, where choreographers were commissioned to create original dance works. Norton attended the Juilliard School and Bank Street Graduate School.