Word: lucinda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...individual teachers, Chip Morris says of Lucinda Childs, his choreography teacher, "She's kind of inscrutable. It seems she doesn't want to interfere heavily with the class. It seems she wants people to have their own opinions...
...their rejection of both traditionalism and a previous generation's idea of radicalism, supported and inspired one another in what was then a lonely pursuit. "The collaborative element of those years was crucial," remembers Composer Philip Glass. "I mean, you'd walk down the street and run into Lucinda Childs or Bob Wilson, Laurie Anderson, Merce Cunningham or John Cage. It was like people say Paris...
...Lucinda Fleeson-staff reporter with The Philadelphia Inquirer...
...behind such problems there has been a worse one. A century ago, most educated people drew as a matter of course because it was the best way to remember what they saw. Great Aunt Lucinda with her watercolor set, earnestly dabbling in the shade of the Duomo, may have been a figure of mild fun; but she (multiplied by tens of thousands) was also the ground from which the tremendous graphic achievements of a Degas or a Matisse could rise. Such amateur experience added up to a general recognition that to draw, to reconstitute a motif as a code...
Such are the arresting components of Available Light, a 55-minute collaboration of three prominent minimalists that premiered last week in Los Angeles. Created by Choreographer Lucinda Childs, Composer John Adams and Architect Frank O. Gehry, Available Light is less a milestone than a signpost. Today's avant-garde has had to circle back on its forebears: the same impulse that gave rise earlier in this century to atonal music and flamboyant attitudes in dance now deals in the certainties of plotless movement and assertive major triads...