But user-generated video streaming offers the promise of a far more tantalizing and dynamic spectacle.
Director Rouben Mamoulian, who launched his career on Broadway with Porgy, created a dynamic spectacle amidst the ramshackle houses of Catfish Row, establishing a look and performance style for the play and later the opera.
With the pavilion doubling as a backdrop for interactive exhibits, state-of-the-art digital media and live performances, the farm will also become a dynamic spectacle where aerial performers will act out a harvest ballet.
They used a projector on human canvases to transform body art into dynamic spectacles.
Mr Gillmer, executive vice president of talent, music programming and events for VIMN, said: "Each year, the MTV EMA is an amazing, multi-platform music experience for our audiences around the world, presented through a dynamic, talent-driven spectacle that only MTV can deliver.
"The problem is he announces that we want to talk about the new Africa," said one White House official, "and those comments are not about the future". This dynamic produced the odd spectacle of White House aides minimizing Mr. Clinton's willingness to be candid about the past.
Minette Walters goes for a walk on the wild side in ACID ROW (Putnam, $24.95), departing from the sinuous storytelling of her novels of psychological suspense to take a more dynamic approach to the spectacle of mob violence in a low-income, crime-infested housing development on the outskirts of London.
A lot of rubbish is talked about the decline of "text-based drama" and the advance of "physical theatre": a facile antithesis since all great theatrical experiences depend upon a dynamic interaction between language and spectacle, the verbal and the visual.
One prone student held a sign reading, "Racism is Real". These medical students' collective protests not only created visual spectacle, but produced a dynamic speculative fiction.
The exhibition, a spectacle of breathtaking color and dynamic graphics, numbers 31 works, which are hung chronologically against white panels in this small, handsome museum.
Bold, dramatic, at times abstract, yet frequently poignant, the images of Fashion, Circus, Spectacle capture the spirit of a dynamic moment in American culture.
