"It feels sparse, and it feels minimal," he said.
As bonkers, sublime and tender as individual moments are, and as beautifully performed as it is, this 1984 production feels sparse and slow-moving even by Bausch standards.
Many of the new songs felt sparse and aerated, especially with older, propulsive ones like "Little Bit" and "Dance, Dance, Dance" sprinkled among them.
But, consisting of simple, dramatic setpieces given a lick of pole dancing and some basic breakdancing, the dance component feels sparse, and neglectful of the ample physical abilities Scottish Ballet luminously display in Workwithinwork.
This show, which was organized by the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, feels sparse, especially because it introduces an artist who seems capable of easily filling the space with one form of drawing or another.
The powerful title track summed up what Tony Banks described as the album's overall "unromantic" feel: a sparse and cold jam with an airy, spacy quality more like Eno or Krautrock than anything in the Genesis catalogue.
Amidst all the compositional grandeur, Fricke's few Moog pieces feel especially sparse and lonely.
It may feel thematically sparse, but it is a moving tribute to Holiday's magic and allure.
The biggest danger of a sparse sensorium is that the sensual reality of the narrative feels thin and makes the story feel false.
Dear Angelica is a film that feels alternatingly sparse and alienating and buoyant and boundless, but ultimately the story that's told is one that seeks to show us just as much about our own realities as it does about the ones we manufacture to fill emptiness, something VR, for better or worse, seems more capable of than most.
