Set and Reset/Reset dance performance at the Tate Modern – tickets on sale now
Tickets go on sale today (January 21) for a recreation of a ground-breaking post-modern dance performance at the Tate Modern.
On January 24, the gallery will open a major free installation in the Tanks reconceiving Trisha Brown’s ground-breaking postmodern dance Set and Reset 1983.
In March, the installation will become the set of ticketed performances by the internationally renowned London-based dance companies Candoco Dance Company and Rambert.
Trisha Brown, who died in 2017, was one of the most influential dancers and choreographers of her generation.
Celebrated for her artistic experimentalism and collaboration with other artists, musicians and designers in 1960s New York, Brown pioneered a unique process of ‘memorised improvisation’.
Set and Reset marked an important shift in Brown’s practice where her fluid yet idiosyncratic dance style was developed into a multi-layered choreographic structure.
Comprising choreography by Trisha Brown, soundtrack by Laurie Anderson, stage-set and costumes by Robert Rauschenberg and lighting by Beverly Emmons, Set and Reset first premiered in 1983 and marked a pivotal moment in dance and art history.
This free display at Tate Modern will feature elements from the staging, as well as documentation of the performance, and rarely seen videotapes that show Brown building and rehearsing the choreography with her dancers.
The stage-set, costumes, soundtrack and lighting, devised by Brown and her collaborators Laurie Anderson, Beverly Emmons and Robert Rauschenberg, will join Tate’s collection as an installation.
From 12–14 March 2022, London-based dance company Rambert will perform Set and Reset within the installation at Tate Modern.
Alongside the original score, lighting, sets and costumes, Rambert will showcase the fluid and unpredictable style of the original choreography.
The following week, from March 19 to 21, Candoco Dance Company will perform Set and Reset/Reset, a radical reconstruction of Brown’s original choreography fused with the dancers’ own impulses and instincts.
Candoco is one of the world’s leading contemporary dance companies that seeks to expand and challenge the perceptions of what dance can be.
Through its company of disabled and non-disabled dancers Candoco continually pushes the boundaries of dance, creating distinctive performances and far-reaching learning experiences.
A seminal work in its repertoire, Set and Reset/Reset has been performed by the company to audiences across the world for over ten years.
Tickets are on sale now on Tate Modern website