The video is deeply unsettling too: Tyler in heavy facial makeup as a doll, moving in mechanical, tenacious fashion as he fixes on the woman he desires.
The ballerina doll, moving with jerky, staccato dynamics and moments of toylike wobbliness but considerable dance virtuosity, has the production's single liveliest dance.
As the dolls moved from incident to incident, the choreography conveyed a sense that they were the embodiment of a child's imagination.
While Sally is gone, another doll (Anne) moves the marble into a box.
The new Buddy Lee is aimed at younger consumers as a heroic "man of action" not unlike an Austin Powers, but the wink-wink joke is that the doll never moves or speaks.
And she was given a baby doll, a move that seemed so jarring that a supervisor initially objected until she saw how calm Ms. Nance became when she rocked, caressed and fed her "baby," often agreeing to eat herself after the doll "ate" several spoonfuls.
No sense housing Barbie when the Ken doll has moved on.
The unnamed doll can move her hips, legs, head and arms in creepy human fashion, and best worst of all, she can follow your gaze with her eyes using motion sensor technology.
Running them together at 24 frames a second created the whimsical, herky-jerky effect of dolls being moved by invisible hands".
Joan Wheeler, who used to stage narrative tableaux with toy dolls has moved on to larger, almost life-sized, but faceless figures freed from the box.
