Word: minimalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Glass returned at a time of remarkable artistic ferment (see box). In the late '60s Reich, a Juilliard classmate, had codified early minimalist theory in such works as It's Gonna Rain and Come Out. Wilson was staging The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud. Minimalist Sculptor Richard Serra (see ART), an acquaintance from Paris, was preparing a one-man exhibition in New York. Reich had already formed an ensemble, and he and Glass sometimes joined forces. A pair of 1969 concerts at the Whitney Museum of American Art attracted public and critical attention to the burgeoning phenomenon of minimalism...
...followed the resurgence of anti-apartheid student activities in 1979. And when the University casually tried to retract that ban on loans to the pariah state, an overflow crowd of 400 students at an open meeting in 1982 denounced the move and stopped Harvard's retreat from an already minimalist and indefensible position...
...popularity of minimalist music spreads and the avant-garde of the '70s pushes further out into the culture, some odd alliances spring up in the artistic landscape. Who would expect to see dancers in the American Ballet Theater stride jauntily onstage carrying ordinary metal folding chairs and proceed to use them as partners? But that is what they do in Choreographer and Performance Artist David Gordon's clever new work--his first ballet ever --called Field, Chair and Mountain, and audiences on A.B.T.'s current national tour cheer them on at every performance. In a New York City Ballet premiere...
...marked by both wry humor (I dreamed I had to take a test in a Dairy Queen on another planet, goes one section) and an imaginative use of technology: with a device called a Vocoder, she can speak and sing in chords. Anderson's unsettling imagery and aggressively minimalist music hardly make for relaxing listening, but United States is a landmark in the art of the '80s, a guided tour through a post-punk apocalypse led by an innocent at home whose sense of the ironic is the only sure road...
...that play. With Endgame, it is a timeless, barren interior of grey lighting. That aspect of the play could be 'lost' if it became popularly believed that Beckett's Endgame should be staged in some ornate, bizarre interior. This danger of losing the original is especially great with a minimalist play where there is no clear historical context to make losing the original staging difficult. When an aspect of the play is lost, some of its value as an artifact of a historical period is lost. So, too, is some of the meaning...