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Review title: the emperor's are naked
Product review: Merce Cunningham, and particulary John Cage, have nothing to say. This work is an exercize in nihilism; it means nothing. Cage wants his "music" to be uninfluenced by him. Why write then? The "music" is a series of words minus vowels, manipulated by computer to be void of any suggestion of real words or sounds, let alone any musicality.The music and choreography, per Cage in the interviews included, were written with no knowledge of the other. This is not hard to believe.I bought the tape to use in a Survey of the Humanities course. I will probably use it, or part of it, but as an example of bad modern art. These old men in this film are fraudulent. Pitiful.There are two positives. One, it shows the difficulties of filming dance. Movement seen on a stage vs on a screen are point-of-view difficult. Two, the film accurately reflects parts of the contemporary art world: Devoid of meaning and happy to thrash around in excrement.
