The triple bill by the Mark Morris Dance Group at the Rose Theater, presented on Thursday night as part of the Mostly Mozart Festival, moves from simple to complex, and from plain entertainment to an astonishingly beautiful and intricate demonstration of genius.
And, Champions League permitting, maybe two more on top of that (By the way: the second leg, in another demonstration of organisational genius, is not for a month).
You forget how young he was, how brave he had to be, how unpopular his choices were and how his continuation of the tradition of prize-fighting as demonstration of kinaesthetic genius and poetry was novel and impactful.
Stanley Joseph McCabe, his Australia team-mate, was giving a demonstration of rare genius in the first Ashes Test at Trent Bridge, and Bradman urgently implored the rest of the team to take the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to watch his innings.
At the moment mine is Barcelona 7-1 Bayer Leverkusen, a terrifying 90-minute demonstration of the defence-shredding genius of Barcelona and Lionel Messi.
Comedy writer and director Judd Apatow, best known for box office hits such as The 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up, received a special "genius" award created to honour "an unprecedented demonstration of excellence in the cinematic arts".
The promised demonstration was put off, but finally the genius announced that all was ready.
"Matisse: The Cut-Outs" at MoMA is a glorious and uplifting demonstration of the power of color and genius.
Cocteau's celebrated 1943 testimony at the trial of Genet and the writer's subsequent presidential pardon, Poirier says, are a perfect demonstration of the notion that "in France, creative genius can usually get away with a great deal".
Whether the unknown genius used lunes or some other method is not known, since for lack of space Boethius did not give the demonstration.
