





Trisha Brown
Man Walking Down the Side of a Building
Past dates
8/10/24
2:00 PM
8/10/24
4:00 PM
8/10/24
6:00 PM
8/11/24
2:00 PM
8/11/24
4:00 PM
8/11/24
6:00 PM
This site-specific performance is one of the most minimalist yet spectacular works by Trisha Brown (1936–2017), who made dance and art history with her drawings and over 100 choreographies. In 1970, Brown had a dancer equipped with mountaineering gear walk vertically down a building in Manhattan to draw attention to the simple and natural act of walking by shifting it into an unnatural scenario. The performance is characteristic of Brown’s work within New York’s Judson Dance Theater, where she, alongside choreographers like Lucinda Childs, invented postmodern dance by creating choreographies based on everyday movements and individual gestures. In Hamburg, MAN WALKING DOWN THE SIDE OF A BUILDING will now be shown three times over two days on the exterior facade of Galerie der Gegenwart. This performance is realized through the Californian vertical dance company BANDALOOP, who is performing the work globally as artist-in-residence performer of the Trisha Brown Dance Company.