Dancing with Bob: Rauschenberg, Brown & Cunningham Onstage

Beginning in 2025, Trisha Brown Dance Company and Merce Cunningham Trust celebrates the centennial of the visionary American artist Robert Rauschenberg. While widely recognized for his groundbreaking contributions to visual art, Rauschenberg also played a significant role in the performing arts-both as a performer and as a designer for choreographers over several decades. Among the many dance artists he collaborated with, his most frequent and notable partnerships were with Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown. 

For this occasion, Trisha Brown Dance Company will unite the work of these iconic 20th-century artists in an evening of dance featuring “visual presentations” designed by Rauschenberg. The program will include Brown’s beloved Set and Reset, set to music by Laurie Anderson, alongside Cunningham’s Travelogue, a vaudevillian pièce de résistance and featuring music by John Cage, that hasn’t been seen by a professional company by 1979.