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The Renegade Richard Foreman
For five decades, Richard Foreman defied realism, plot, and theatrical convention. Jennifer Krasinski looks at the radical mind behind the…
The suburb offered the boy almost none of the intellectual or cultural stimulation he craved, but it was only a short train ride to Manhattan, where he often sat in the audience for Broadway productions directed by the virtuosos of midcentury American realism, including Elia Kazan, Harold Clurman, and José Quintero. Soon thereafter, he moved to New York City with his first wife, actress-turned-film-critic Amy Taubin, and quickly fell in step with the community of underground filmmakers and artists who orbited Jonas Mekas’s Film-Makers’ Cinematheque in SoHo, which gave a home to personal, lyrical films that often transgressed, or ignored, the usual conventions of cinema. Foreman’s peers included the choreographers Yvonne Rainer and Trisha Brown, the filmmakers Mekas and Ken Jacobs, the theater artists Richard Schechner and Robert Wilson, the composer Meredith Monk, and, in the mid-1970s, Elizabeth LeCompte and the Wooster Group.
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