Peter Greenaway, Louis Andriessen M Is For Man, Music, Mozart (1991)

A commissioned project, made for TV in honor the the 200th anniversary of Mozart s death, this is a highly avantgarde piece of music, theater and dance, set to an original score by the controversial Dutch composer Louis Andriessen (who would later collaborate with Greenaway on the operas Rosa and Writing to Vermeer ). Four nude, powderwhite dancers (representing the Gods) appear on a stage designed in the style of an 18th century anatomy theater. A woman (Astrid Seriese) sings a list of objects beginni