It's also an oblique commentary on the fleetingness of life, embodied in the dancers' maddened speed and spats that don't find resolution.
For "Winter Words," he collected various Thomas Hardy poems about the fleetingness of experience, which weigh the sensations of the instant (a boy's boredom on a long train ride, the creak of an old table, a certain light in the trees in November) against the unfeeling vastness of time.
Bothered by the fleetingness of the performance, he began to record the music on his tape recorder.
Seen as examples of the vanitas genre, with soon-to-wilt flowers warning of the fleetingness of life, they may seem to belong to an obsolete moral universe.
We see the blooming flowers as manifestations of spring and situate them temporally by invoking the sequences associated by the annual changes in nature from winter to spring and summer, and all of this while viewing the whole process in terms of concepts like regeneration, life, or perhaps the fleetingness of beauty.
Each theme provided a mixture of strange objects, works of art and tongue-in-cheek observations on the notions of fleetingness.
Indeed, Ms. Bhuta's interest in one of Hinduism's core tenets — fleetingness — guides her work.
At the end of "The White Snake," after an unexpected plot twist changes the story's tone, the cast delivers a closing speech about the fleetingness of life and the sadness of loss.
But when I saw Glass perform at the 2,000-year-old 2,000-year-old 2,000-year-oldyears ago, I had Templestinct sense of the fleetingness of time, anDendurnse that, while his musicouple last, the man himself (like all of us) has a finite number of dayears this eagoh.
But in the ravishingly torqued shapes and dreamy flow of the choreography, Dawson also captures a deeply poignant truth about the artform itself, the fleetingness of its beauty, and of the dancers who perform it.
And when that happens, the medium frustrates even more with its fleetingness.
