Expressionism

I'm still trying to put a point on what Expressionism is, but from what I saw during STAC, I think it's quite safe to say that it's definitely heavily influenced by Death, The Circle of Life, and Spirituality.

It also reminds me a bit of the Dada movement. The varying scales with no particular pattern used in opera composition is similar to the "beliefs" connected to Dada. It doesn't make much sense, but it does. The orchestra that played for the opera play sounded so bizarre, but at the same time it was strangely beautiful.

I feel that Expressionism is also a little bit Minimalist. Butoh is so slow and simple, but it says so much with the amount of movement that is stressed. What we watched in STAC was very interesting to me and yes, maybe sitting through a few hours of that may make me go insane, for the time being it was very engrossing.

Hopefully over the course of this week, I'll have a more solid grasp on what this movement really was.