Mr. Gilbert, intent on illuminating the Webern work's Romantic spirit, focused on its roiling textures; its dark, shifting coloration; and an undercurrent of emotional intensity.
At times she seems to be morphing into light or, at one point, being edged toward the boundary of her rectangular world by dark, shifting shapes.
Her black-costumed dancers appear first as a dark shifting mass, individuals discernible only as a pale pattern of faces and outspread hands.
The scale of this work was huge: 64 dancers matched against the orchestral forces of Adès's score, and Pite matched it with exultant skill, her choreography moving in dark shifting masses, roiling waves and great scattered configurations.
The program includes Forsythe's "Rearray," a fragmented, improvisational pas de deux for Guillem and Massimo Murru (of La Scala); "Bye," a playful solo by the Swedish dancemaker Ek; and a dark, shifting pas de deux from Jiří Kylián's 2002 work "27'52"." David H. Koch 63rd St. and Columbus Ave.
With her open manner, easy smile and unshowy dark shift, Katherine Butler cuts a welcoming figure – hardly the default image of the hardnosed studio executive.
Rifampicin was added to the cells 2 h after the first onset of light illumination (1L2) or 8 h after the second dark shift (2D8).
WT and evg plants were transferred to a growth room for two weeks of acclimation under long days (LD, 16 h light/8 h dark) and shifted to SD (8 h light/16 h dark) photoperiod conditions for eight weeks.
As Yongsu and I froze and caught our breath, the dark silhouette shifted, looking momentarily like a giant black crane before bending into a more humble shape to approach us, grumbling under his breath.
