Cicadas burrowed into the house, scaled the curtains, swung from our clothes.
Not only were the brightly colored felt garments of a fun-house scale, but they were also completely flat.
Above all, its dancing too seldom turns its music into movement that matters in space on opera-house scale.
The best is arraultza, a round of baguette topped with sofrito, chorizo, and a perfectly fried quail egg: deli breakfast on a doll-house scale.
Like that of the Austrian Cultural Institute, now nearing completion two blocks away, it demonstrates the capacity to project a powerful urban presence at town-house scale.
Instead, and thanks to their financing, they worked on an opera-house scale, exploiting the resources of a great classical dance company.
When the company moved into opera-house scale in the mid-1980's, it occasionally wound up with theoretical overload and too much décor.
Like the directors, a few of the dancers in Configuration have left major companies to experiment on less than an opera-house scale.
The doll-house scale of this restaurant requires a profusion of "excuse me"s, many of them delivered gently by a busboy in a starchy cruise-ship coat carrying trays of "deconstructed" oysters Rockefeller and Mississippi paddlefish roe.
For his deadpan parodies of Vermeer paintings, Mr. Stern first constructs doll-house scale 17th-century Dutch-style interiors and populates them with rudimentary little figures made from short dowels joined by metal hooks.
Taking advantage of the galleries' size and soaring height — 20 feet — the aim has been to encourage viewers to look across long stretches of space lined with drawings, directly into several almost-open rooms where the animations will be playing, projected in some cases at movie-house scale.
