The six-minute video has special effects, elaborate costumes, and two crewmen banter: "Back in Russia, I dreamed someday I'd be rich and famous".
Alston is becoming a rarity in modern dance, not simply because his choreography is so profoundly shaped by music but because it relies so little on extraneous effects – elaborate lighting or stage design.
What are, in effect, elaborate computer games might help tech firms spot trends and make more accurate forecasts.
The first truly modern playwright was probably Kishida Kunio, whose plays, with their contemporary settings, do not depend for their effects on elaborate scenery, music, or histrionics.
Rather, the campaign, now getting under way, is focused on the needs of car engines that, through special effects in elaborate television commercials, are brought to life as characters with minds of their own.
Mr. Miike's combination of computer-generated effects with elaborate costumes and what looks like old-fashioned stop-motion animation is nowhere near as slick or seamless as the latest $100 million Hollywood extravaganza.
Over the years, Ms. Sperling has staged several productions inspired by the experiments of Loie Fuller, an early-20th-century modern dancer who created magical effects with elaborate costumes and lighting.
Composed from 1910 to 1925, it makes reference to hymns, popular songs, the European classical tradition and some of Ives's earlier works in a complex tapestry of overlapping thematic materials, layering effects and elaborate percussion.
In "Code 46," a somber new dystopian romance that opens today nationwide, the prolific and stylistically promiscuous English director Michael Winterbottom forgoes the usual indulgences of special effects and elaborate set design, preferring to glean the contours of the future from an observation of the present.
This is not so different from the logic that drives big film studios to spend increasing amounts of money on special effects and elaborate marketing campaigns, at a time when it's easier than ever to shoot and distribute a movie.
Sometimes the restaurant's effects are elaborate, like the snack of skewered mussels suspended over a shot of sake, which in turn conceals a few grams of sea urchin paved with avocado mousse: Eat, sip, eat.
