Word: formful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bundestag debated the problem for most of its opening session, then voted by a large majority to require from every conscientious objector some form of alternate service-as male nurses, Red Cross helpers, gatekeepers or maintenance men. The deputies also called for swifter processes to muster out of uniform those objectors whose presence in the Bundeswehr might damage their fellow soldiers' morale...
Broken Glass. Brown favors what he calls "open form" music. Last week he displayed his style at a concert at Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory of Music. One of the works on the program, Available Forms I, which is scored for 18 wind, string and percussion players, is a Calderian example of what Brown calls "conceptual mobility." Each of its six pages contains five musical "events," which the instrumentalists play on specific orders from the conductor. In front of the podium is a numbered board with a sliding red arrow; the conductor moves the arrow to give the page...
...Brown led Available Forms I and a second open-form work called Novara (1962), his long fingers fluttered, his hands twirled, his palms undulated in an assortment of uniquely personal and specific hand signals. Clenched fists brought forth hard, crashing sounds. He touched index finger to thumb to produce tiny streams of pizzicato noises. Occasionally a player would press down a trumpet valve without blowing, and let it go just for the click. Or another would blow through a trombone to achieve a breathy effect. There were prolonged single notes and furious tonal scurryings up and down the scale...
Twos and Lessons. The petite, blue-eyed architect of these events hopes that her myths "are speaking out against imposed authority, against ruts and for change." At 48, she no longer dances regularly, but is busily experimenting with new variations of her myth form. So far she has concocted something called "rituals" (which are, in effect, mini-myths) and "twos" (which require participants to act as couples throughout). Next month, at Los Angeles' Music Center, she will stage her most ambitious undertaking to date: a Watts myth. "It will not be a black-white confrontation," she says, "but rather...
...workshop activities are as much anthropologic as choreographic. Influenced by the "structuralist" ideas of Claude Levi-Strauss, Halprin believes that a society's myths, or basic beliefs, are as fundamental to its form as its language. Even modern men are driven by such primal instincts as incest, murder, sacrifice and cannibalism, although such drives are almost entirely submerged by the character of urban life. By encouraging her audiences to act out their anxieties in terms of free-moving myths, Halprin is providing not only a therapeutic outlet but an artistic one as well. "The central idea of every evening...