Click here to purchase tickets to Trisha Brown Dance Company's “Pelican Gala" on May 18th at Xanadu Roller Arts in Brooklyn, and enjoy this behind-the-scenes look at how the reimagined work came together.

In 1963, Robert Rauschenberg was incorrectly cited as a choreographer in a program for the Pop Festival in Washington, D.C.. Rather than issuing a correction, the artist embraced the error by creating his first work of choreography to be performed as part of a showcase by the Judson Dance Theater, of which Trisha Brown was a founding member. Pelican featured Rauschenberg himself among the original cast, circling the performance space on skates and bicycles while wearing billowing parachutes.

Exactly sixty years after its last performance in 1966, Pelican returns to the stage on May 18th through an artistic collaboration between The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and Trisha Brown Dance Company. The work, featuring former Merce Cunningham dancers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Reiner alongside New York City Ballet soloist Ashley Hod, was reimagined by former Trisha Brown dancer Tara Lorenzen in Rauschenberg’s Captiva studio, drawing on original photographs by Peter Moore, archival video footage, and Rauschenberg’s notes.