March 17--Performance artist Laurie Anderson said she was getting ready to give a commencement speech a few years ago when she turned to cellist Yo-Yo Ma and shared a fantasy with him.
"I was saying, 'You know what? I have this fantasy when I'm doing a concert: I look up and the whole audience is dogs,'" Anderson recalled to Stephen Colbert on Wednesday's episode of "The Late Show."
"And he said, 'I have that fantasy too,'" Anderson said.
Anderson, who grew up in Glen Ellyn, performed a concert for thousands of dogs outside the Sydney Opera House in Australia in 2010. She hosted a similar show in New York City in January to honor Sept. 11 first-responder dogs.
On "The Late Show," Anderson performed as dogs sat on rugs around her.
Her 2015 "Heart of a Dog" documentary, about love and loss after the death of her rat terrier Lolabelle, is scheduled to air on HBO April 25.
"The Late Show" airs 10:35 p.m. weeknights on CBS.
