Word: minimalist
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...five dancers as "The Moors" literally provide live scenery, contrasting with the otherwise minimalist setting. A video, though, needs more. This is more than your average two and a half minutes of Van Halen and 20 women in bikinis, it's two hours, 26 numbers and quite intricate. And for that reason alone, the dancers are not sufficient to create the setting...
...SECOND PLAY of the set, Footfalls, is of a completely different nature than Rough I. The set is minimalist, and the lighting harsh, low, and unidirectional. In Footfalls, Beckett explores the absurdity of the human situation through a dialogue between a daughter and mother. The problem--if it really is a problem--with Footfalls is that it is impossible to determine who is the mother and who is the daughter. The play thus becomes very impressionistic, with no evidence of a climax or resolution--but then again, this is Beckett's fundamental opinion about life...
...Camelot, costalot, cutalot" was how its first Broadway director described his own production. Neher and crew chose to avoid extravagance in favor of a minimalist approach: a single bare set--a platform with a "throne" on one end and a ladder on the other--instead of 16 different sets, a cast pared-down from 28 to just eight, one pianist instead of an orchestra, and less than extravagant costumes. These measures give focus to Camelot's story, nicely highlighting its comic verve and the lusty love triangle between King Arthur, his Queen, Guinevere (usually referred to as Jenny...
DIED. Ana Mendieta, 35, Cuban-born sculptor who worked with natural forms such as tree stumps and earth mounds; of injuries suffered when she fell from the window of her 34th-floor apartment; in New York City. Her husband of nine months, Sculptor Carl Andre, 50, a controversial, pioneering minimalist whose work often consists of lines of bricks and blocks of wood, was arrested and charged with pushing her out the window during an argument. He was released two days later on $250,000 cash bail, after a judge refused an offer by Andre's lawyer...
...construction called Heads Will Roll. "Neo-expressionism" was the buzz word for this kind of art, and, for a while, it might have been carpentered onto the Heads' music as well. African rhythm stacked up against Motown, and 42nd Street funk against the ozone background musings of Rock Minimalist Brian Eno, all set under lyric passages that seemed like exercises in concretist hysteria. Byrne cooked up a homicidal maniac who talked to himself in French. "Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est" was the refrain of the first big- time song he ever wrote. Funny and frightening...