Opal Loop/Cloud Installation #72503

“In Opal Loop/Cloud Installation #72503 (1980), Brown…began with the idea of an endless movement phrase…[that] required a method for looping movement to return it to the center of the space. Each dancer produced her/his own improvised response to this open-ended scheme for stopping and restarting the phrase, producing a canon-like feathering and migration of movement forms across four different bodies… The movements’ fluid sequencing, as enhanced by [Fujiko] Nakaya’s shape-changing cloud of water molecules, becomes extremely difficult to see, making for Brown’s most poetic statement on dance as an evanescent art.”

Susan Rosenberg, Scholar-in-Residence, Trisha Brown Dance Company