Dancers move in front and behind gauze panels and two pairs of bright headlights dim.
Mr. Liang, in red, begins the ballet behind a series of black gauze panels that Mark Stanley's stunning lighting design turns red.
In the second act, ingenious dot patterns applied to adjacent panels of board and gauze opened partial views through the walls of the Countess's chamber -- a handy effect in a drama so dependent on hiding and spying.
She lightly worked bias panels of gauze into tweed shifts, added a coy caped back to slim coats and showed how a hooded jacket, drawn from the world of athletics and rappers, could morph into an elegant white pod.
The set is inhabited by a 3 face structure: two vertical panels of white gauze and a white dance oor are asymmetrically combined to create an immersive projection system.
When Mr. Benepe stopped by, Amel Chabbi, 27, and Annie Thorkelson, 29, were applying a temporary protective facing of gauze and water-soluble adhesive to a panel of Long Island that runs from Mastic Beach to Speonk, through the Moriches.
(Who, after all, wanted to tell Comrade Stalin he'd dismantled the Amber Room?) Whatever the reason, curator Anatoly Kuchumov left the priceless panels in place, thinly disguised under sheaths of painted paper, gauze and cotton.
A white panel floats in front of the back wall, and wide bands of white gauze arch up the sides of the room and across the ceiling.
Before laying down the six willow panels that will form the roof, Beard and I stretch a thin gauze of white organdy across the top, which will provide the baby kissing bugs with easy access to any one of the hut's four corners.
The seven-panel wall relief was made by wrapping the pregnant woman's body with plaster-soaked gauze bandages, the type used to make casts for broken bones.
