Dancer to Walk Down Side of Building Friday

The Center for the Art of Performance (CAP) at UCLA is partnering with the Oakland-based vertical dance pioneers of BANDALOOP to present Trisha Brown’s “Man Walking Down the Side of a Building” on Friday, April 5.

As part of CAP’s multi-venue, multi-performance Trisha Brown Dance Company: The Retrospective Project, “Man Walking” will be performed for free at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center on the UCLA campus at 6 p.m., immediately preceding the evening’s Royce Hall program of Trisha Brown proscenium works.

Amelia Rudolph, choreographer, performer and BANDALOOP founder/artistic director, will perform the piece, which entails a dancer, geared with specialized rigging, to walk face forward over the edge of a building and stroll down its side on the horizontal plane. The audience will gather at the foot of the Broad Art Center (home of UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture) near Richard Serra’s 2006 sculpture “T.E.U.C.L.A.” (Torqued Ellipse UCLA).

BANDALOOP has worked closely with CAP UCLA and the Trisha Brown Dance Company to produce and construct the interpretation of “Man Walking” for The Retrospective Project.

“I admire Trisha Brown as the contemporary trailblazer of urban site-specific performance,” said Rudolph. “Her eye for detail and overarching vision of what dance can be has inspired my work and a whole generation of choreographers.”

“Man Walking” is one of Brown’s most simple works, originally created and performed by the dancer herself in the 1970s. “Man Walking” has also been presented at the Whitney Museum in New York, the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis and performed by such dance greats as Stephen Petronio and Elizabeth Streb.

The Retrospective Project includes two other site-specific works from Brown’s oeuvre: “Floor of the Forest,” an installation work that will be performed from March 30-April 21 in the Hammer Museum courtyard, and “Roof Piece,” which will be performed at the Getty Center twice on April 6.

Contact: cap.ucla.edu/tbdc.