Article: A beautiful mind: never tired of challenges, Trisha Brown soars from edgy, gravity-bending work to the classical purity of Paris opera ballet, as the Trisha Brown Dance Company celebrates its 35th anniversary.

Imagine being wound tight like a corkscrew and suddenly your arms fling open, propelling you on a careening arc that lands you smack into your partner's left shoulder. Take a moment to settle, then a sideways jump, and off you go, in and out of a unison phrase that's by turns delicate and gestural or space-eating and buoyant.

Dancing Glacial Decoy is a definite high. But you could say that for just about any of the works Trisha Brown has made for her company. They all demand hyper-mobility and a demonic coordination that has you switching into retrograde or performing the top half of one phrase with the bottom of another.

Brown is a grande dame of the ...

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