The Restoration spectacular, or elaborately staged "machine play", hit the London public stage in the late 17th-century Restoration period, enthralling audiences with action, music, dance, moveable scenery, baroque illusionistic painting, gorgeous costumes, and special effects such as trapdoor tricks, "flying" actors, and fireworks.
If the ideas that feed into Dark Matters are gothic, the dance Pite draws from them is tight and enthralling.
Obviously, she's an experienced, extremely capable dancer with captivating, enthralling moves when she broke into what looked like spontaneous forays into dance.
In fact, the 1589 intermedi had many of the same players and almost all the ingredients of opera costumes, scenery, stage effects, enthralling solo singing, colourful instrumental music, large-scale numbers combining voices and orchestra, and dance.
The amazingly long (over 40 minutes) and entirely enthralling second number, "Varnam," is a bravura example of the way Bharatanatyam moves between characterful storytelling and nonrepresentational dance.
Mr. Luo, especially, is enthralling.
She was completely enthralling.
Disturbing yet enthralling.
The piece is enthralling.
