Levan delighted in playing tricks on both his friends and audience, whether by playing the same song over and over for an hour or jolting the dancefloor with a sudden blast of bass.
Play ceases the moment someone goes out by playing the last card from his hand, whether as part of a new meld, laid off to the table, or as a discard.
Perhaps it's the participatory zeitgeist of the digital age – whether expressed by playing video games, voting in TV reality shows or posting responses to the writings of paid journalists - that is encouraging participatory art to spread beyond the digital world, in the same way that the emergence of mainstream photography coincided in France with the rise of impressionist painting.
Also known as the Joe Lean (number seven on here) Dictum, this supposes that no one ever made it to the top by playing music for people and seeing whether any of them kept coming back.
The congregation - a mixture of black and white, locals and tourists - is encouraged to participate, whether by playing an instrument (some bring their own saxophones), singing, clapping or stomping their feet.
One topic under discussion is the broader question of "transfer," whether a skill developed by playing a game actually translates to improved abilities in other areas.
Whether it was by playing football, cricket or one of those funny ones like lacrosse, people this year continued to defy economic experts' prediction that sport would have died out by the end of 2010.
But when South correctly falsecarded by playing her five, West did not know whether her partner had started with four spades or five.
And the role of Bottom is played (whether by Julio BragadorYoung or Alexei Agoudine) with an appealingly high energy that transforms it.
As before, we're looking for the books which shed light on the Polish experience – fiction, non-fiction, poems and plays – whether written by those who'd call themselves Poles, or not.
