Also this issue: Model Image The fragmented personae of Veruschka. -Robin Rice Tere O'Connor Dance -Janet Anderson Shut Up and Dance 11 -A.D. Amorosi Macbeth -David Shengold Monsters, Mickey and Mozart -Juliet Fletcher The Game Is Ova Heredity fashions an engaging tale from the ethics of reproductive science. -Justin Bauer The Crucible -Toby Zinman The Fever -Toby Zinman

March 13-19, 2003

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Line Dance

Dancers generally hang up their concert shoes by age 40, but Trisha Brown got it backwards -- she's been performing for about 40 years. An avid explorer in her medium, Brown emerged during the 1960s post-modern era when she and fellow artists Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton and Simone Forti attracted attention for their then-avant-garde approach to dance, incorporating pedestrian gesture and contact improvisation. She was also one of the first to use alternative spaces (rooftops, walls) as a stage. She still likes to show up at unexpected places, as happens this week, when The Fabric Workshop and Museum presents It's a Draw/Live Feed, a solo show in which Brown dances on paper while holding charcoal and pastels in her hands and feet. As music plays, Brown's movements generate large-scale drawings, and her activities are transmitted to viewers via a live video feed. The resulting artworks will stay on display at the Workshop through April 19, and Brown hangs around a bit after this Saturday's performance for a meet-the-artist discussion and reception. The live event certainly sounds intriguing, as does the chance to chat with a renowned dance innovator who just keeps on ticking.

It's a Draw/Live Feed, Sat.-Sun., March 15-16, 2 p.m.; artist reception/discussion, Sat., March 15, 3-4 p.m., both free, Fabric Workshop and Museum, 1315 Cherry St., 215-568-1111.

—Deni Kasrel