As always, his personality spills into the lyrics, which alternate between lamenting the state of American leadership ("The business-first flat earthers licking their wounds/The verdict is dire, the country's in ruins") and exploring the evocative visions, taken directly from his dreams, that have long informed his writing.
One was his "Soft-Tech House for the 1980s" – an evocative, late-70s vision of "the future" that looks like a cross between Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House and a sort of Hobbit-style eco-dwelling.
When we think about intelligent entities, we instinctively model them on our own experience, where the thoughts we have take place through lightning-fast interchanges between billions of neurons inside our brains, while connections to information sources outside our skulls take place via relatively slow, dumb, evocative means like language, vision and empathy.
This is their third collaboration -- "Twin Falls Idaho" and "Jackpot" are the others -- and on a DVD released today by Paramount they talk about hardships on the set while revealing something of their own evocative if not immediately fathomable imagery and vision.
But more than the skills of the beautifully arrayed dancers, the idiosyncratic movement that has no equal in contemporary choreography, or the evocative minimalist set design, Bausch's overall vision has the novel effect of activating the neurons in the viewer's brain with theatrical stimulants that make our bodies feel as if we're somehow involved in the creative process of the dance.
In those excruciating moments of labor, the looming Queensboro is transformed into a warm vision of the Howrah, and an evocative mosaic of the vibrant world Ashima has left behind.
His vision of an English Neverland remains powerfully evocative.
Prosperous and fair are good, evocative words and they should be part of a bigger vision.
In tripped-out works that make white space as evocative as lurid colors, Bill paints and draws the smeared visions of an Altamont survivor reflecting upon mortality.
