Word: avante
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sixpence is still the "real" Gauguin -- a stockbroker and Sunday painter who cracks out of the bourgeois egg, dumps his wife, family and career and hightails it to Tahiti to "find himself" among the breasts and breadfruit. He is part brute and part escape artist, the Houdini of the avant-garde...
...touring U.S. regional theaters, focuses its innovations more on the play's psyche than on the director's. To be sure, sometimes it is merely idiosyncratic. The nonsense sounds, absurdist gestures and gloomy lighting may have primarily private meaning for Tadashi Suzuki, 48, a leading figure of the international avant-garde, and for the dozen actors from the co-producing ensembles: StageWest in Springfield, Mass., where The Tale of Lear is to run through May 15; Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Arena Stage in Washington and Berkeley Repertory Theater in California. But for the most part, this work sparks audiences to think...
...TALE OF LEAR. Japanese Avant-Garde Director Tadashi Suzuki and four U.S. regional theaters joinly create an incantatory short version of Shakespeare's tragedy, now at StageWest in Springfield, Mass...
...sometimes sounds like a Jungian therapist ("I get clients to explore their fantasies"). He lives in neither of the two U.S. Architect Belts (Boston-New York- Philadelphia, Los Angeles-San Diego), but in plain, out-of-the-way Albuquerque. His work is not strictly modernist or postmodernist, classical or avant-garde; the pigeonholes do not apply. Predock, a self-described "cosmic modernist" who senses the "emanations" of a particular building site and says only half jokingly that he "would rather talk about UFOs than Palladio," is nevertheless creating a remarkable body of work -- tough and sensual, fabulously imagined, altogether persuasive...
...learning about the Ecole de Paris, the Japanese visitors were facing severe odds. Nothing in their culture had prepared them for the Western modernist ethos. They came from a world enlaced with traditional forms, in which the idea of an avant-garde was barely conceivable and the notion of radical renewal seemed like cultural parricide. Terms like expression and the self had quite different loadings in Paris and in Tokyo. The rapid change of styles in Paris -- fauvism, cubism, expressionism, surrealism -- was bewildering. But they seemed portents of cultural renewal; so even with Japanese who were painfully aware that their...