Like Mikhail Baryshnikov she has star power that has meant that she can seek out little-known choreographers and move into contemporary dance terrain while still drawing packed audiences.
Underlying rock structures are of little significance for the contemporary Lithuanian terrain, which basically is a low-lying plain scraped by Ice Age glaciers that left behind thick, ridgelike terminal deposits known as moraines.
Ron Mallon (2004, 2006, 2007) provides a nice sketch of the contemporary philosophical terrain regarding the status of the concept of race, dividing it into three valid competing schools of thought regarding the ontological status of race, along with the discarded biological conception.
Departing from that playwright and filmmaker's more customary contemporary-relationships terrain, this new comedy follows two mercenary 14th-century French knights as they wade through ecclesiastical politics on a quest for relative moral redemption.
For almost a decade, Joel Sachs has staked out the contemporary-music terrain at Juilliard with a fluctuating student ensemble that's capable of performing his demanding and unusual new-music programs to great critical acclaim.
But it was the final pairing that not only illustrated how much terrain a contemporary musician has to master but also assertively demonstrated how it's done.
By contrast, although there are clear historical roots to the current form of the field (Goldman 2001), social epistemology didn't make its presence felt on the terrain of contemporary epistemology until the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Without wanting to deny the existence of other contemporary figures working similar terrain, we can easily read Callicles, Thrasymachus and Glaucon as Plato's analysis of Antiphon into three possible positions, distinguished in order to clarify the complex philosophical options involved in the immoralist challenge.
For some observers, this uncertainty and instability extends to a 'crisis' in post-colonial subjectivity itself (Mbembe and Roitman 1995), as the orientation of selfhood falters on the shifting and insecure terrain of contemporary urban life (Le Marcis 2004).
