Re: RAT what is forward thinking now...

[jonoh1@juno.com (Ezra Buzzington)]

 what was once a movement of inquiry, demanding 
>new
>ways of seeing and thinking, has become, simply, a genre. 

So, what's new? This happens to every movement.

Even much of
>the work in this past FringeNYC Festival, though less endowed with
>gizmos, tended toward the conventional. What gives?

To the best of my recollection, no one on the staff of FringeNYC <ever>
touted that it's presentations would be experimental in nature. We had an
"experimental" category at first (I'm talking the first year only) but
that quickly went the way of a non-biased adjudication process. There is
<no> definition of "fringe" in the United States. Though it is often
assumed that "fringe" means avant-garde and/or experimental this is not
correct. For every company that defines itself as fringe via its
experimental work, there are several others who define themselves as
fringe via their economic constraints. She's assuming a definition that
is incorrect. 
Jonathan Harris


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