Comments on: Trisha Brown: Gimme Something To Believe In http://countercritic.com/2008/02/06/trisha-brown-gimme-somthing-to-believe-in/ Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:30:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: countercritic http://countercritic.com/2008/02/06/trisha-brown-gimme-somthing-to-believe-in/#comment-732 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:13:00 +0000 http://countercritic.com/?p=918#comment-732 Hi Tonya-

Yes, I totally saw that! I’m super flattered, and it’s given the site a nice little boost.

R

]]> By: tonya http://countercritic.com/2008/02/06/trisha-brown-gimme-somthing-to-believe-in/#comment-730 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:16:30 +0000 http://countercritic.com/?p=918#comment-730 Did you see — James Wolcott gave your post a big huge shout-out! http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/blogs/wolcott/2008/02/self-styled-sir.html

]]> By: Christian http://countercritic.com/2008/02/06/trisha-brown-gimme-somthing-to-believe-in/#comment-723 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:42:15 +0000 http://countercritic.com/?p=918#comment-723 I agree with your comments just about completely. While the idea of a marching band that never enters the theater, playing jolly military marches, reminded me that we’re all in our own little worlds of “delicate aberrations” while a distant war is unendingly going on, the overall piece never gelled. The gobo projections on the back wall were ridiculous. Robert Rauschenberg’s “music” was, you’re right, something that shouldn’t have happened and Ms. Brown should have got rid of it. And finally, the robots, other than sometimes providing a shifting frame of reference for the dance, looked like wobbly push-brooms awkwardly sliding around onstage. The curtain call betrayed their unresolved status: they weren’t exactly included in the line of dancers taking their bow, and they weren’t exactly un-included, either. They looked uncertain as to whether they were actually invited to the party… which is pretty much how they looked during the entire piece.

BTW I thought Laurie Anderson’s music was vague, flaccid and meandering. Maybe that worked in the context of the movie it was made as a soundtrack for, but it didn’t help the dance at all. It just seemed half-baked and complacent – a disappointment.

Your comments were right on the mark.

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