Company C, from the San Francisco area, performed four works by three choreographers, varied enough to show a range of idioms.
While Feldman's hallmark was slow-moving, muted gestures, Mr. Penderecki, the Polish composer who has explored a range of idioms from avant-garde to neo-Romantic during his career, often highlights otherworldly timbres.
Pinker's insistence that written language loosen to reflect natural American idiom is parochial: there's too wide a range of idiom to be captured in one style.
He took to America at once, mastering a range of verbal idioms in a way that few foreign directors now bother to do, and becoming familiar with a wide variety of social milieux.
Descriptors V13, V14, V15, V16 were originally taken from the same descriptor (Can recognize and use a range of vocabulary, idioms, colloquial expressions and technical jargon), but these appeared at different positions, with V13 at -1 logit value, V14 and V15 at the -0.5 logit value, and V16 at around 0 logit value.
Like Bang on a Can, the Music of Now Marathon featured composers and performers representing a broad range of idioms and styles.
The first two pieces on the program were Renée Archibald's "Shake shake," a female dance quartet involving rolls of white paper and an electric fan, and Renée Wadleigh's "Seven Scenes of Wanting," a duet in which a man and a woman stay close to each other but do not touch, with a narrow range of idioms.
The David Chesky music used in "Hope (The Final Rise)" steers through a wide range of idioms, some rock related and none distinguished.
Garland has since gone on to forge new and personal sounds from a diverse range of idioms with his own ensembles, exploring Balinese, Spanish and Brazilian music with his Lighthouse Project and classical elements in his Storms/Nocturnes Trio.
Like the score, the dance covered a wide range of idioms: the eight dancers included former Merce Cunningham performers (Jean Freebury and Banu Ogan) and a ballet dancer (Ashley Tuttle, who not only danced on point but also removed a shoe to thwack it against the floor).
"Rune" is 50 years old; some material at Dia:Beacon was new; the half-century between has seen a vast range of idiom.
