Her analytically trained audience ate it up.
There were few filmmakers - film director is too limiting a description - who went so far to train audiences to see differently.
"As well as training artists," the press release goes on, "Abramovic also wants to train audiences in the mental and physical disciplines of creating and experiencing long-durational work".
Brakhage's films restructure vision itself, training audiences to see beyond the physical limitations of the eyes and create, as he put it, "a nervous system feedback of visual music".
And Diaghilev, ironically, had trained his audiences to expect innovation and avant-garde chic from his company.
The result is that talented young people will not be trained, future audiences will not be developed, and our country will be denied its own cultural heritage.
The aerial acrobatics, the taut cables and spinning cages, the whole business of soaring around an arena like a pop-punk Peter Pan: by now she has trained her audiences to expect this species of amazement in concert.
"Anyone whose material is unique, comedy clubs are like, 'We don't know how that's going to play with our audience.' Well, that's because you trained your audience so that people who like something unique have stopped coming".
