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Working out in Briggs Cage three times per week the past month, the fifteen has missed the services of Buzz Miller, Dave McGugan, and Fred Winthrop, all of whom left school this term...
Merce Cunningham and John Cage, exponents of the outre in dance and music, have joined forces to produce a bizarre performance that has (they claim) only projective meaning: it isn't what they say, it's what the audience thinks they're saying that counts. Last Saturday's concert of three pieces met with uneven success in its attempt to give some clue as to what it was all about, but it was still...
...unnecessary to follow every movement or watch constantly, just as it was unnecessary to listen carefully to John Cage's accompaniment of electronic whines, buzzes, piercing, shrieking tones, and cacophonous static. The endless, disjunctive movements and music discouraged close attention: without looking, without listening, one knew that it would be more of same, more of same. Variety at random is just plain dull...
...audience responded to Aeon with scarcely more than polite applause. The combination of Cunningham and Cage was clearly too much for those who found themselves outside the dancers' world: they could share neither in the dehumanized music nor the mechanical dance. To the extent that Cunningham and Cage left their audience feeling like an out-group, they failed to communicate their...
...Vitus Dance frenzy. In a spirit of whimsy and joy, the dancers switched from the deadpan love-making of Aeon to an enthusiastic dance that came very close to pantomime. Like pantomime, it told a story, and told it clearly. Finally let in on what Cunningham and Cage were up to, the audience loved every minute...