Loyce Houlton (1977), "Horseplay" (1977), "Carmina Burana" (1978), "The Haunted Landscape" (1985), and "The Rite of Spring" (1985). She worked with the composer Carl Orff on her danced realization of his cantata Carmina Burana and also collaborated with Yanni, George Crumb, and Philip Glass for various dance works. The period 1980-1985 was distinguished by a number of collaborations with noted video and film artists, for example the documentary "Loyce" with Peter Markle and "Swan Lake Minnesota" with Kenneth Robins, Scott Killian, and Kim Sherman. She also appeared onstage at the legendary 1983 First Avenue concert at which Prince recorded the definitive version
Carmina Burana chess. Older research assumed that the manuscript was written in Benediktbeuern where it was found. Today, however, "Carmina Burana" scholars have several different ideas about the manuscript's place of origin. It is agreed that the manuscript must be from the region of central Europe where the Bavarian dialect of German is spoken due to the Middle High German phrases in the text—a region that includes parts of southern Germany, western Austria, and northern Italy. It must also be from the southern part of that region because of the Italian peculiarities of the text. The two possible locations of its origin