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...Avant garde play "the CIVIL warS"--plagued by walkouts when it previewed at the American Repertory Theatre (ART) two weeks ago--has been extended through March 23 for an extra six shows...
...popularity of minimalist music spreads and the avant-garde of the '70s pushes further out into the culture, some odd alliances spring up in the artistic landscape. Who would expect to see dancers in the American Ballet Theater stride jauntily onstage carrying ordinary metal folding chairs and proceed to use them as partners? But that is what they do in Choreographer and Performance Artist David Gordon's clever new work--his first ballet ever --called Field, Chair and Mountain, and audiences on A.B.T.'s current national tour cheer them on at every performance. In a New York City Ballet premiere...
...Eight Lines the creative exchange is reversed: a classical choreographer goes to the avant-garde for a musical inspiration. Robbins has done this with great success once before, in his 1983 hit, Glass Pieces. That ballet was a boldly theatrical vision of city life--densely populated, aggressive, peremptory, endlessly churning. Because their music is superficially quite similar, the two works are bound to be compared. Eight Lines is slighter and more evanescent but it is also more intimate and charming, and it is ravishing to look...
Laurie Anderson: United States Live (Warner Bros., five disks). Laurie Anderson's United States, Parts I-IV, which premiered two years ago at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, is the work that first brought the avant-garde form of performance art to a wide audience. A dazzling synthesis of music, narration and film, Anderson's free-associating view of American materialism was marked by both wry humor (I dreamed I had to take a test in a Dairy Queen on another planet, goes one section) and an imaginative use of technology: with a device called a Vocoder, she can speak...
David Byrne is a riveting physical and emotional presence--a cult movie star who radiates otherworldly danger. Occupying the center of this glossy rock- concert film as leader of the avant-punk band Talking Heads, Byrne comes across as both stage-frightened and spellbinding. The dramatic contours of his gaunt face seek the shadows, where his most pounding, powerful songs (Psycho Killer, Burning Down the House) take form. The other band members, who appear to have been born on this planet, are along to provide white noise for the Showman from Outer Space as he surfaces in a big white...