Word: reich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reich said that, of the School's research and teaching programs, research often seems to get a disproportionate emphasis. He said that while everyone agrees it is important to provide a balance, the problem lies in implementing a means to provide...
Riding through the Reich...
Headquartered in Arlington, Va., the party has some 400 members. California Reich, a documentary produced last year, showed neighborly-looking people pledging allegiance to "the immortal leader of my race, to the vision for which he stands, the hope and future of Aryan man," and smiling proudly as their children gave Heil Hitler! salutes. Explains Producer Walter Parkes, who won an Oscar nomination for his film: "The Nazi image is a great boost for someone with little selfesteem. The party is full of marginal types, getting together with other marginal types...
...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 the performing space, Dean relies on absolute repetition, absolute unison, absolute symmetry...
...aesthetic embodied in "Marimba," a 1976 work set to Steve Reich's "Music for Mallet, Instruments, Voices and Organ," is that of repetitive imagery. The intensity of repetition leads to clearer seeing, deeper insight; it's a curiously challenging boredom. The unfamiliar is so predictable as to become unexpected. Composer Steve Reich articulates this aesthetic in an essay defining music as a "gradual process." He writes, "I want to be able to hear the process happening throughout the sounding music," a perfect description of "Marimba," a dance about form revealing itself...