Choreographer Trisha Brown’s It’s a Draw (2002–3)

Abstract

At the 2002 Montpellier Danse festival, choreographer Trisha Brown (1936–2017) premiered a new hybrid work of dance and drawing. Through the project’s title, It’s a Draw, she encapsulated the ambiguity governing her combination of these two mediums in a single performative artwork. From July 1 to July 6, 2002, in the festival’s nonproscenium Studio/Théâtre du Hangar, Brown presented live improvisational dance and used improvised movement to draw, producing three ten-byeight-foot works per night: nine drawings in all. As Jean-Paul Montanari,