Word: avante
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Meredith Monk, who choreographed the film's opening and closing tableaux. Byrne and Wilson will collaborate on The Forest, conceived as both a live opera and a film and scheduled for a Berlin premiere in 1988. Glass and Wilson joined forces on Einstein, the work that marked the avant-garde's uptown coming-out party at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1976, and earlier this year Glass released the album Songs from Liquid Days, which featured lyrics by Byrne, Anderson, Paul Simon and Suzanne Vega, with performances by Linda Ronstadt and the Kronos String Quartet...
...Rome section of Wilson's global epic, the CIVIL warS, which will be performed in December as the closing attraction of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, now in its fourth season. The academy, affectionately known as BAM, has become a national showcase for avant-garde work; its president, Harvey Lichtenstein, is the movement's Sol Hurok. When Lichtenstein courageously produced Wilson's The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud in 1969, few thought Wilson's glacially paced musings would be the stuff of box-office success. But when Glass's opera about the early life...
...avant-garde became hot, even chic. Bianca Jagger and Diane Keaton joined the Next Wave Producers Council, young urban professionals who had never gone near Lincoln Center flocked across the Brooklyn Bridge, and a BAM ticket became the scarcest in town. The first Next Wave Festival in 1983 featured Director Lee Breuer and Composer Bob Telson's dazzling wedding of Sophocles and soul, The Gospel at Colonus, which was later televised on PBS. The next year saw a triumphant reprise of Einstein, while last season brought Wilson's incandescent play The Golden Windows. It also brought forth a full-fledged...
...work that has not been discovered, people working on the fringe," says Mark Russell, director of Performance Space 122, a funky theater carved out of an abandoned public school in Manhattan's East Village. "There is a whole wave of people working this way now, underneath the surface." The avant-garde must always remain one step ahead, testing and trying public sensibilities. But what Byrne, Wilson and the others have done is reassert that direct, simple communication can be a revolutionary concept too. And that is a true story...
...Heads were a prominent part of a creative community that kicked avant- garde American culture into a newer, more accessible shape. Music, dance, performance art and rock all flowed together into a single swift stream, which Byrne navigated effortlessly (see following story). He also wrote scores for the spectacular theatrical ruminations of Robert Wilson (The Knee Plays, segments of Wilson's grand-scale project, the CIVIL warS) and the spirited, quirky choreography of Twyla Tharp. "He is very precise and very careful," Tharp says admiringly. "He doesn't waste things, but he is also capable of being very adventuresome...