Trisha Brown grew up as a tomboy in Aberdeen and went on to become one of our preeminent post-modern choreographers. Though her 40-year-old Trisha Brown Dance Company is today based in New York, theres still a playful thread in her work of hanging upside down from a tree. In her seminal Set and Reset, Brown uses many of the structural tricks that abound in postmodern dance, with performers calling out directions to one another while starting and stopping, rewinding and replaying. Her signature lanky/loopy movement style becomes the raw material for all this pattern-making. The twists and turns of the structure feel like the games we all played as kids, making Set and Reset almost a grown-up version of Simon Says. Also on the bill: Water Motor, Opal Loop, Pygmalion, and the world premiere of Les Yeux et lame (the dance suite from the opera Pygmalion). SANDRA KURTZ
March 31-April 2, 8 p.m., 2011
