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Straightlines, an original work written and directed by Patrick Tan and produced last week in the Experimental Theater, undeniably breaks convention. Tan calls it a "Performance Piece for Six Individuals." This two hour production, incorporating light, dance, video, music, and props, is really no more than a series of good visual images...
...dance breaks offer some of Tan's best images. Ambiguously titled things like "The Happy End," or "Lethargy" or "Mundanity," they are well-choreographed interludes of modern dance movement. The music includes David Byrne, Brian Eno, and Philip Glass...
Straightlines moves from extreme to extreme, at times engaging us with excellent visual images, at times tiring us with repetiton. Tan could have edited and shaped the show to be more consistently stimulating...
...large young Tadzhik in a tan jacket links his arms with ours and shouts that he is taking us to see the innocent dead and wounded in the hospital. A car is commandeered, and we career down the boulevard to the hospital...
...Story Behind the Tan: We present this next item as a public service for all our loyal readers who may be having important meetings with the dean this week. Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, that is. You might notice upon arrival in Spence's plush University Hall corner office that he is unusually tan. And since we wouldn't want anyone to think that Spence had been going to a tanning salon or anything, we note that the dean was seen on a plane Tuesday. The plane took off from Florida, and the dean was on it--complete...