In October 1983, choreographer Trisha Brown, composer and musician Laurie Anderson, and Rauschenberg premiered Set and Reset at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Fort Greene. Set and Reset was a part of BAM's new Next Wave experimental art and music festival. Rauschenberg called the collaboration "one of the most unique theatrical challenges in my career." For Set and Reset, his *Elastic Carrier (Shiner)*—a fabric-covered sculptural form on which black-and-white stock footage he had edited together was projected—hovered above the dancers as they moved to the hollow tones, percussive beats, and sliding electronic scales of Anderson’s score, "Long Time No See." Rauschenberg made the costumes out of sheer gauze, onto which he silkscreened photographs he had taken of urban details throughout New York. "Bob wants to play," Trisha Brown recalled, "He has a great envy of dance because it's alive, the people make it, and it's fragile in the fact that it disappears as soon as the dancer leaves the space." Rauschenberg hailed Brown for maintaining “the most inventive history of any dancer” describing her as “always fresh, challenging...her energy has no bounds.”