There was a period when throughout a large part of Europe theater entered a marriage with the visual arts. Italy, West Germany, France, Holland, Belgium, and (with a somewhat different sensibility) England and Switzerland all participated.The trend reached as far as Spain, on the one hand, and Yugoslavia on the other. The greatest stimuli came from the United States—from John Cage, Happenings, the Living Theater, Robert Wilson, Richard Foreman, and the dance of Simone Forti, Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown, Steve Paxton, Meredith Monk, and Joan Jonas; these influences worked both at long distance