Trisha Brown Wins Gish Prize
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Trisha Brown Wins Gish Prize
September 7, 2011, 12:45 pm
New York Times Arts Beat
By DANIEL J. WAKIN
A Gish for Trisha: the modern dance choreographer Trisha Brown has won this year’s Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, an award worth about $300,000 that was named after the silent film actresses. The trust that administers the award, given to artists for “groundbreaking impact in their chosen fields,” said Ms. Brown had “transformed” modern dance “with new vocabularies of movement.”
The prize, now in its 18th year, will be given at an event in New York on Nov. 2. Past winners have included Chinua Achebe, Robert Redford, Pete Seeger, Laurie Anderson, Peter Sellers, Ornette Coleman, Bill T. Jones, Bob Dylan and Frank Gehry.
New York Times Arts Beat
By DANIEL J. WAKIN
A Gish for Trisha: the modern dance choreographer Trisha Brown has won this year’s Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, an award worth about $300,000 that was named after the silent film actresses. The trust that administers the award, given to artists for “groundbreaking impact in their chosen fields,” said Ms. Brown had “transformed” modern dance “with new vocabularies of movement.”
The prize, now in its 18th year, will be given at an event in New York on Nov. 2. Past winners have included Chinua Achebe, Robert Redford, Pete Seeger, Laurie Anderson, Peter Sellers, Ornette Coleman, Bill T. Jones, Bob Dylan and Frank Gehry.
