Choreographer Trisha Brown's Archive Goes to the New York Public Library

with Lance Gries, Carolyn Lucas, Diane Madden, Shelley Senter, Wil Swanson and David Thomson. As seen in NY Times article of 9/16/20.

Over the years, thousands of hours of rehearsal footage accumulated in choreographer Trisha Brown’s archive, most of which make up 1,200 videotapes known as the Building Tapes. These invaluable records of her creative process, long used almost solely by the Trisha Brown Dance Company, are now poised to become available to a much broader public. After an extensive search for the right home, the company is placing its founder’s archive — including the Building Tapes and corresponding notebooks, known as the Building Notebooks — at the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. (New York Times)

Jon Gartenberg has worked as a consultant with Executive Director Barbara Dufty and Archive Director Cori Olinghouse to help place the Trisha Brown’s archive. This led in September of 2020 to the archive being placed with the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

A 1974 Boyd Hagen photograph of Brown, right, and Carol Goodden in “Leaning Duets II” (1971).