{"id":20,"date":"2004-12-23T17:26:47","date_gmt":"2004-12-24T00:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=20"},"modified":"2005-07-27T18:51:54","modified_gmt":"2005-07-28T01:51:54","slug":"collaboration-of-the-century-in-paris-trisha-brown-czeslow-milosz-laurie-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2004\/12\/23\/collaboration-of-the-century-in-paris-trisha-brown-czeslow-milosz-laurie-anderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaboration of the Century in Paris &#8211; Trisha Brown &#8211; Czeslow Milosz &#8211; Laurie Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/images\/trish.jpg\" alt=\"Trisha Brown\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;Last Friday, in the first of 11<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/12\/23\/arts\/dance\/23pari.html?8hpib\"> performances<\/a> through Dec. 31, &#8220;O zlozony\/O composite&#8221; was given an enthusiastic reception. One Paris critic described it as &#8220;a major work.&#8221; Brigitte Lef\u00e8vre, director of the opera ballet said the audience responded with &#8220;a wave of love&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>she developed an alphabet &#8211; literally A to Z &#8211; of &#8220;simple and pure gestures, reminiscent of the ballet lexicon.&#8221; These were then organized into sequences by using two poems, St. Vincent Millay&#8217;s &#8220;Renascence&#8221; and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/index.php?p=16\"> Milosz&#8217;s<\/a> &#8220;Ode to a Bird&#8221;, which serve as kinds of librettos for movement, although not as narratives.<\/p>\n<p>The title of the piece is taken from Milosz&#8217;s poem, which begins in its English translation with &#8220;O composite,\/O unconscious.&#8221; The poem, recited in a sensual voice in Polish, is also integrated into Ms. Anderson&#8217;s haunting score. And a bird is even suggested in the choreography.&#8221;<br \/>\n ( Nytimes \/Arts- Dec.23\/2004)<\/p>\n<p>Trisha Brown recieved the highest cultural<a href=\"http:\/\/www.playbillarts.com\/news\/article\/991.html\"> award<\/a> from France.  (Dec17, 2004)<\/p>\n<p>Trish and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurieanderson.com\">Laurie<\/a> having collaobrated before, the two have been making history for the quarter of century. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Last Friday, in the first of 11 performances through Dec. 31, &#8220;O zlozony\/O composite&#8221; was given an enthusiastic reception. One Paris critic described it as &#8220;a major work.&#8221; Brigitte Lef\u00e8vre, director of the opera ballet said the audience responded with &#8220;a wave of love&#8221;. she developed an alphabet &#8211; literally A to Z &#8211; of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2004\/12\/23\/collaboration-of-the-century-in-paris-trisha-brown-czeslow-milosz-laurie-anderson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Collaboration of the Century in Paris &#8211; Trisha Brown &#8211; Czeslow Milosz &#8211; Laurie Anderson&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-dance","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}