Underground film’s decline coincided with theater’s rise in respectability.

Evidence

As underground movies lost relevance, Ridiculous Theater grew more respectable. As the first anniversary of the Stonewall uprising approached, in early March Heaven Grand in Amber Orbit was revived downtown at Café La MaMa and received even better reviews than its first run, hailed by Dick Brukenfeld in the Voice as “a comic plague … Artaudian in effect.” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1565

Categorization

• XREF: The simultaneous decline of underground film and rise of Ridiculous Theater is a concrete case of the reallocation of avant-garde energy the reader wants to document as scenes shift.