I remember walking round a corner of a makeshift stage and being blinded by a bank of the world's press, with all these people shouting 'Over here, over here!' and a whirring of cameras that sounded like machine-gun fire.
At the opening ceremony of China's much celebrated first conference about H.I.V. and AIDS, an anonymous H.I.V.-positive person delivered brief remarks -- from the corner of a darkened stage, lit by green glow sticks, so that his face could not be seen.
In a brief solo, almost like a coda, she reprised movements from earlier in the piece: a running phrase with her arms outstretched behind her, like wings — an act of freedom, just as her stomping was — a string of chainé turns spinning into a corner of the stage, a solemn, constricted fifth-position stepping sequence.
Michael Yeargan's Act I set suggests the interior of a church through just a few elements: black-barred gates that lead to chapel annexes; a scattering of votive candles grouped in a corner of the stage floor; a huge, dramatic silver cross that hangs oppressively from above.
The images emerge, like chemical memories, from a far-off or sometimes not-so-distant past: an aerial view of a fruit cart, a corner of the stage at CBGB, industrial ruins, a deliveryman in Chinatown, Brooklyn fog.
His lone partner was the bassist Larry Grenadier, and for much of their opening set on Tuesday night they stood almost huddled together in a corner of the stage, like a bluegrass duo.
But no non-dancer moved among the four corners of a performance stage with more elegance or musical intent than Whitney Houston did.
Then, suddenly, from the far corner of the stage, a pair of buttocks emerge and shuffle across the stage towards ROACH.
Much of the action took place in just one corner of the stage, a chair at times being the only prop.
Over in one corner of the stage, a statue of the Virgin Mary had flames pouring out of the top of it, as Gaga sang the chorus.
