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Trisha Brown rehearsing members of her troupe in 1991 in her work “Foray Foret.”
Jim Wilson/The New York Times; thumbnail, Andrea Mohin/The New York Times, 2002
Trisha Brown
Died on March 18, 2017 at age 80
As a choreographer, Ms. Brown combined the the cerebral and sensuous sides of dance to become the exemplar of the founding generation of American postmodern dance.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.