Word: minimalist
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...they could find some mainstream success in addition to pleasing the legions of NFG fans who still cry out for albums full of endemically inane subjects and lyrics. The single best track of the album is “Truck Stop Blues,” which espouses a more minimalist approach, foregoing the occasionally heavy-handed instrumentality of the other tracks to highlight lead singer Jordan Pudnik’s high-pitched but attractive vocals. These vocals have been trimmed of the nasal stylings with which Pudnik intoned previous albums and work exceptionally convincingly over the track?...
...bizarre minimalist format (“STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE [verb] [clause].” Now repeat that four times.), and it even seems uncertain about its own content ("content is non-specialized and may include essays, interviews, treatises, projects. propositions...”—you get the drift). Sources report it's the brainchild of Sabrina Chou...
...actors perched, and a simple backdrop that changed color as the monologues changed in tone and content. Each actor took turns reading Gray’s words from their black binder, occasionally moving around the set but never breaking out of character.The actors resisted Gray’s minimalist aesthetic at times and tried to sensationalize Gray’s emotions, in the process rendering his measured words overly dramatic. In one such moment, Ain Gordon choked up while reading Gray’s journal entries detailing his slip into mental decline. Instead of successfully conveying the subtlety of Gray?...
...social critique.The Wang Theatre’s heavy curtains first opened to reveal a white dress and a male dancer. Amidst a tense silence, a spotlight rested on the ruffled costume. The lighting was simple, a method used by Joop Caboort throughout the show to emphasize the minimalist nature of Kylián’s choreography. A dancer, concealed behind another until this moment, shifted to the right quickly and almost imperceptibility, revealing that there are in fact two. Without regard for a definitive start or end, the curtain then fell, rising again as “No More...
...martial-arts master - and just from the synopsis, I'm on board with Chandni Chowk to China. For, as any video nerd-historian will tell you, the two most exciting foreign movie industries of the past few decades have been Hong Kong and India. While European filmmakers went inwardly minimalist, those teeming Asian cinemas generated robust entertainment of pinwheeling action and violence (Hong Kong) and unabashed sentiment and music (Bollywood). Different in temperament, but alike in their vigor and brio, they were both exotic and oddly familiar to their American admirers. We realized that the radiant assurance of old-Hollywood...