Describe the basic features of postmodern architecture, opera, and dance

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The postmodern style affected architecture as well, with designs that emphasized visual complexity, individuality, and outright fun. In contrast to the machinelike purity of the International style structure, the postmodern building is a playful assortment of fragments "quoted" from part architectural traditions. The popular architect Frank Gehry, a good example of the style, rejected Classical design principles of symmetry and stability, developing a vocabulary of undulating forms and irregular shapes inspired by everyday objects.
Music, too, reflects the stylistic diversity and patchwork aspects of postmodernism. Opera especially combined many influences, often in jarring juxtaposition. For example, John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles takes place in three different (and interlayered) worlds: the eighteenth-century court of Versailles, the scenario of a Mozartean opera, and the realm of the afterlife. The score, too, commingles traditional and contemporary musical styles, alternating pseudo-Mozartean lyricism with modern dissonance in a bold and inventive (although often astonishingly disjunctive) manner.
In dance, choreographers such as Mark Morris, set their pieces to any number of musical styles: Mozart, dance-hall, rock, jazz, hip-hop, among many others. Morris, with comic wit and a reverence for technique, often challenges ballet's gender conventions, assigning male dancers body movements traditionally consigned to females.