Dancing the Lineage: Trisha Brown Technique and Repertoire w/ Lee Serle

Taught by former Trisha Brown Dance Company (TBDC) member and guest choreographer Lee Serle, this technique class offers a deep exploration of body alignment and movement fundamentals essential to engaging with the detail and rigour of Trisha Brown’s choreographic style.

With an emphasis on easeful yet dynamic movement, students will learn phrases from the Company’s repertory and explore a range of works spanning Brown’s choreographic cycles—from her structured early pieces, to Set and Reset (a hallmark work from the Unstable Molecular Structures cycle), For M.G.: The Movie (from the Back to Zero cycle), and Rogues, one of her final works which was developed on Serle.

The workshop also includes movement and creative processes from Serle’s own work for TBDC, Time Again, offering students a unique perspective on legacy and innovation within the Company’s repertoire.

🔵 Suitable for intermediate and advanced dancers

Registration includes complimentary attendance at LGI’s Morning Class on the same day (optional).

Presented by Lucy Guerin Inc

ABOUT LEE SERLE

Lee Serle graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Dance in 2003, and has presented his choreographic work to critical acclaim worldwide, creating dances on all scales, from grand stages to the intimate and personal, commissioned by the Lyon Opera Ballet (France), Sydney Dance Company, Lucy Guerin Inc, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Dancenorth, among others. Lee choreographs within varied contexts and forms creating proscenium works, site-specific and interactive performance, intimate solo dances, and within the gallery, engaging a broad range of artistic collaborators.

Lee began his career as a sought after collaborator and performer in Melbourne, contributing to the works of notable choreographers including Lucy Guerin, Gideon Obarzanek, Shelley Lasica, among others, and in 2010 was awarded a prestigious Fellowship from the Rolex Arts Institute to be mentored by seminal American choreographer Trisha Brown. Following this he was awarded an Australia Council Creative Australia Fellowship that facilitated his ongoing choreographic practice for two years mentored by another seminal American choreographer Tere O’Connor. Lee has also received Fellowships from the City of Sydney and the Chloe Munro Bequest awarded via Lucy Guerin Inc.

Lee is a highly regarded educator having lectured and choreographed at tertiary institutions in Australia, USA and Europe, and was Education and Licensing Director for Trisha Brown Dance Company in 2017 facilitating the dissemination of Brown’s work globally.

Image credit: For M.G. The Movie © Ian Douglas