Dance: Minimalists 3

The avant-garde steps back

The stage is thrust up from the floor and split into two unequal planes. Enter eleven dancers clad in black, red or white pajamas, their costumes slit wide to flash inner forearms and thighs. Slowly they start to spin, hop and shuffle in smooth synchronicity. Out of huge loudspeakers suspended from the ceiling comes the foghorn blast of a low note—like the opening of Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra—played by a synthesizer; later the music rises in a blast of brass to a Brucknerian apotheosis.

Such are the arresting components of Available Light, a 55-minute collaboration of three prominent minimalists...

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