"And then I wasn't thinking …" In the accompanying video a cocky little dog trots around a big white emptiness, following a much larger, loping mutt.
An ideological vacuum In a sense, the eerie power vacuum in Westminster is a perfect reflection of a much bigger ideological emptiness: the rightwing ideas that have dominated globally since 1979 may be crumbling, but the left has not yet significantly revived, nor come up with many fresh proposals for what should come next.
For the final section, though, the dancers scatter and Baryshnikov is left alone in the spotlight, to try to fill its emptiness with big, lunging, raggedly desperate jumps.
In this city, there is no shortage of icons recalling the torture of that day, but there are no icons more expressive than these vehicles, engulfed in a tragedy vastly bigger than themselves, the emptiness of their cabs a reminder of what became of their crews.
Emptiness, too, is not "found" when sought (emptiness is empty, too).
Neon Bible shares the name of the novel John Kennedy Toole wrote as a 16-year-old before A Confederacy of Dunces, and explores the clash between innocence and the big bad world, between spiritual emptiness and blind religious observance.
Their emptiness is expectant.
But this emptiness was a great quality, it was a production of emptiness.
"The emptiness is the great potential and also the flexibility this emptiness offers," Mr. Herzog said.
