Word: post-modernism
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...emerge. The scandal of the provocations died. The poetry (some of it) survived. The paintings went into museums and were hung in the houses of the rich. But there is an immense pathos and beauty in the relics, the artifacts. They are the fragments of a hope that post-modern art has lost, and may never find again...
...horizon it found California. Heretofore dismissed for its aimless spirit and shallow purpose, California seemed reborn-or at least exciting. While think tanks scanned the future, aerospace technicians outfitted adventures to the moon. There was a flourishing journalistic "underground" and an archipelago of multiversities that bristled with post-modern architecture...
Laura Dean is considered a "post-modern" choreographer. Although she and her peers carry forward many of Cunningham's ideas, they diverge from the master's path in significant ways. While Cunningham never directly collaborates with composers--occasionally his dangers do not hear the sound accompaniment until opening night--Dean for several years worked closely with musician Steve Reich, and now composes her own music. She's intersted in showing how dance and music connect at the deepest level: in the use of the physical self as instrument. Unlike Cunningham, who exploits the illusion of randomness by splaying dancers around...
...power of the corps. He doesn't advocate any one point of view as to the use of music, choreographic form, or movement style. Instead, he takes what he needs where he finds it: in the traditions of ballet, in the techniques of Graham or Humphrey, in the post-modern aesthetics developed by his contemporaries...
...standing, the group returns to its first formation. After several rounds slight irregularities in the pattern crop up: one dancer fixes her hair, another brushes something off her leg, yet another glances quickly at the ceiling. Several rounds later members of the collective blurt out word associations with the "post-modern" aesthetic: "symmetry...precision...logic...formalism." All the while the extraordinarily funny dismembering of the repititive pattern continues...