Footprints: Dance on Paper by Trisha Brown

Abstract

I am looking at Trisha Brown’s footprints, framed and signed, and hanging on my living room wall. Are they her actual footprints? Yes and no—they are the impressions of her feet, though not a direct transfer of ink from sole to sheet. To be more precise, I am looking at three etchings on paper recording the footwork of this dancer as she executes an unseen dance. These are prints of her footprints, a doubling of that passage’s trace, displaced further still in a move from floor to wall.