Accordingly, the Trocks' "Dying Swan" begins with a spotlight beaming hotly on one wing and then, oops, on another, then another, until at last Ida Nevasayneva (Paul Ghiselin) bourrées out to undergo the celebrated extinction.
We wanted it to look like the old days--the audience was dark, you could see them a little bit, it was smoky because everybody was still smoking, and he's in a spotlight beam--a big concert, vintage feel.
I've watched Beyoncé stand solo at the 02, in a single spotlight beam, having dispatched all her band and backing dancers off stage, and send ripples of joy through 20,000 people by slightly tensing one bum cheek and letting out a trademark roar.
What were initially small flickers of insects in the spotlight beam become a whipping cloud, then a full-on, whiteout blizzard.
The lamp still burned on Thursday, a discreet glow from a corner cabinet, but in the week since his release from captivity, it has become all but forgotten as a harsh, probing spotlight beamed on Bergdahl, his family and the town of Hailey.
But inside, the pitch-black show space resembled a nightclub, with spotlight beams shining down on guests, including the most celebrity-heavy front row of the season.
Performed in the round on Wednesday night, the work began as a spotlight was beamed on a tripod.
One's a wide beam, one's a spot beam.
"Flight" includes William A. MacKay's 1898 grisaille painting of a fleet of flying vehicles, which resemble antique submarines, shooting spotlight beams in all directions and hovering over the Brooklyn Bridge.
A 28-year-old graduate student who is part scientist and part showman, Mr. Pompei has invented a device that projects a discrete beam of sound in much the same way a spotlight projects a beam of light.
