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Most of the time, Joan Foster is the quietly unremarkable wife of a humorless student radical. In odd stolen hours, she plays mistress to an avant-garde artist who serves as a kind of latter-day Mad Hatter. From both husband and lover, Joan cleverly hides two secret shames: the fact that she produces feverishly romantic gothic novels and her pre-diet-pill memories of a miserably obese childhood. Both are telltale signs of a temperament too florid to suit the doctrinaire, modernist tastes of the men now in her life. One day, seized by a fit of automatic writing...
...than a few students from so-and-so's class, others dedicated troupes led by strong choreographers. The most original tend to be Betty Fain (October 9-10), Deborah Chassler (December 3-5) and New England Dinosaur (watch for them next spring and in the me time check out avant-garde music events at the Dinosur Annex...
...womb of the Hayden Gallery sprout the constructions of sculptor Chris Sproat. Boston-made himself, Sproat has illuminated spaces around here with his light sculptures for the last six years. Always avant the garde, and one of the first artists to exhibit at Boston's then new Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), he was back there this past summer as part of "The Skowhegan School, 1946-1976". Summer and "skowhegan" are, sadly, over, but there are still a couple of days to catch the last bright glimmers of Sproat's work. Hurry...
...tells the story of aSan Francisco woman who headed on a whim to New York at age 22 and took her first dance class there a year later. In 1961 Rainer presented her first pieces with the Judson Dance Theater, and became one of the prime movers behind that avant-garde set of dancers, painters and sculptors. The movement broke apart in 1964; Rainer continued to work on her own, and by 1968 had charted a new aesthetic that took up where Judson had left...
When Graham took over the deanship three years ago, though, the emphasis changed radically, with the program becoming a more competitive one, carrying fewer and higher stipends and greater academic distinction. Graham said last week that in the "old days, the sixties, it was avant garde" to enable women to return to the work force, adding that the fellowship's former role is now carried out by other programs within the Institute itself...