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...Wilson's slow-motion dreamscapes have influenced not only a neophyte filmmaker like Byrne but an experienced theater director like Andrei Serban. Performance art, an offbeat amalgam of music, theater, narration and stand-up comedy, has caught flight on the puckish wings of Laurie Anderson. Choreographers such as Twyla Tharp, Lucinda Childs and Laura Dean have pushed out the envelope of movement with each new step they have taken...
Sounds and images once considered experimental are now becoming commonplace. Knockoffs of Glass's trademark repeating chords and arpeggios pop up in television commercials, movie scores and the New Age sounds of Windham Hill. Tharp's sinuous, explosive movements have been danced by Mikhail Baryshnikov. Free-form surrealism is the mainstay of the rock videos on MTV, and their most innovative directors, like Russell Mulcahy, have graduated to feature films. Probably not in the past half-century have the works of the avant-garde achieved such wide currency among mainstream audiences...
...ballet Bad Smells, Tharp used a snoopily aggressive closed- circuit video camera to chart her dancers' every move, projecting close-up images on an overhead TV screen. Anderson's works, such as her two-evening epic United States, Parts I-IV (1983) or her 1985 stage show Home of the Brave, play off the television culture that gave them birth. Indeed, some avantgardists have made the television screen their preferred medium, like Korean-born Video Artist Nam June Paik, who amasses hundreds of video monitors in assemblages. When Byrne, driving along the Texas highways in his red 1985 Chrysler...
...freedom means choice, then Baryshnikov reveled in it, pursuing myriad options. He has worked with a dozen or so choreographers. With Twyla Tharp's brilliant Push Comes to Shove (1976), his flair for comedy burst out. In 1977 he became a Hollywood star, playing a famous dancer in The Turning Point. (Another film, White Nights, will be released at Christmas.) The lorn Petrouchka began to seem like a Slavic Jimmy Cagney...
...dance, Glass is composing a new work for Choreographer Twyla Tharp to be produced in 1986. His CBS album of chamber music, Glassworks, part of which was used by Jerome Robbins for a hit ballet called Glass Pieces, has sold 115,000 copies worldwide since its 1982 release. In Cannes recently, Glass and two others shared the prize for Best Artistic Contribution for their work on Director Paul Schrader's new film Mishima, about the Japanese novelist and warrior manque; Glass also scored Godfrey Reggio's 1982 vision of environmental apocalypse, Koyaanisqatsi. Currently the composer is finishing a new opera...