Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will join forces again with a new opera based on the tales of the Arabian nights. Their last collaboration was the Rome section of Wilson's global epic, the CIVIL warS, which will be performed in December as the closing attraction of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, now in its fourth season. The academy, affectionately known as BAM, has become a national showcase for avant-garde work; its president, Harvey Lichtenstein, is the movement's Sol Hurok. When Lichtenstein courageously produced Wilson's The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud in 1969, few thought Wilson...
...avant-garde became hot, even chic. Bianca Jagger and Diane Keaton joined the Next Wave Producers Council, young urban professionals who had never gone near Lincoln Center flocked across the Brooklyn Bridge, and a BAM ticket became the scarcest in town. The first Next Wave Festival in 1983 featured Director Lee Breuer and Composer Bob Telson's dazzling wedding of Sophocles and soul, The Gospel at Colonus, which was later televised on PBS. The next year saw a triumphant reprise of Einstein, while last season brought Wilson's incandescent play The Golden Windows. It also brought forth a full-fledged...
...office. Their minimalist spirit was a reaction to the arid formalism that dominated the postwar period, particularly in music. But the rebellion is over, the insurgents have won, and they now find themselves in the unexpected -- and sometimes uneasy -- position of having become the Establishment. Notes the Next Wave's Roger W. Oliver: "All these artists started in opposition to what was being done at the time. But as they have matured, and in order to grow as artists, they had to move toward the center." To combat middle-age spread, they have branched out. Wilson has taken up traditional...
...next revolution start? "There will always be an edge of work that has not been discovered, people working on the fringe," says Mark Russell, director of Performance Space 122, a funky theater carved out of an abandoned public school in Manhattan's East Village. "There is a whole wave of people working this way now, underneath the surface." The avant-garde must always remain one step ahead, testing and trying public sensibilities. But what Byrne, Wilson and the others have done is reassert that direct, simple communication can be a revolutionary concept too. And that is a true story...
...gathering where you're as likely as not to get soaked with beer, where you might end up sitting behind three huge guys smoking pot, where many of your fellow fans' idea of a good time is doing The Wave--alone...