In January 2013, the Trisha Brown Dance Company performed the final two works of Trisha Brown’s career. The following year, Beth Gill presented New Work for the Desert , an unsanctioned yet affectively nuanced study of Brown’s Newark (Niweweorce) (1987).

This second installment of TDR 's continuing series on choreography and philosophy addresses dance and temporality. Paula Caspão describes the economy of movement and language as a stuttering, relational, affective field. Frédéric Pouillaude argues that contemporaneity links dance and scÈne , which in French means both an abstract place for an event and, more concretely, the stage. In a dialogue, Danielle Goldman and Deborah Hay follow up on Goldman's considerations of how improvisation offers “escape routes”—for and from dance, theory, and time.