Re: RAT THE SUPERBOWL?

[brad rothbart <scrdchao@nni.com>]

>So here's a question...who thinks that the advant of Dance Theater 
>as (ie Pina Bausch) and contemporary Opera (ie Peter Sellars)  are 
>going to actually, radically change the way we do theater?  And I 
>don't mean simply adding more music and dance to what we do.. but 
>rather will we begin to conceptualize differently?  will we begin to 
>think in terms of a larger canvas when we make stuff?
>I hope to God so.
>
>


  I am going with you on the question,

  but I feel that you fail to realize that Theatre is simply not 
ingrained in the American culture as it is in the British,. The man 
on the street  doesn;'t discuss the Moving Theatre, or Theatre De 
Complicite, or whether Joint Stock's unique process was a boon or 
hindrance to the playwrights of the 70's. Most Americans care about 
Mas Media.   The Super Bowl halftime show is a close as most people 
will ever get to Robert Wilson, or Pina Bausch,  or Balinese 
Shadowplay, and in that way it is a valid discussion because it 
comments directly on the state of multidisciplinary perfomance in the 
States. Nothing that happened in the halftime show was all that 
formally revolutionary- the mere fact that it was the halftime show 
is.


--brad