The small and impressive Octandre Ensemble, conducted by Jon Hargreaves, gave the world premiere in a nimble staging as part of the Arcola theatre's 10th Grimeborn festival.
In December, when "Il Mondo Della Luna" played to delighted audiences at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, in a nimble staging by Tobias Moretti, it was a passage of pure sound that made the most lasting impression.
Let's try again with the plot: Salvini, an impassioned painter (when are they not?) – in this nimble semi-staging Enea Scala wears that badge of bohemian artistry, a scarf – falls in love with his master's fiancee, Nelly, while Fanny, a young servant, pines for him.
The idea, they say, is to tap into the innovation driven by early stage, nimble start-ups which are normally below the radar of global companies.
Mr. Sturrock is a lively raconteur, and moves with nimble gracefulness around the stage, animating the story with the sheer warmth of his presence.
They hurl themselves into impetuous slides, skim across the stage in nimble footwork, push their way urgently backward on all fours, shimmer in turning or bobbing jumps — and yet, amid the formal structures, always keep an informal quality, never letting the steps acquire any veneer of academicism.
Yoshimi's symbolic battles are staged with nimble panache, with Ms. Glenn (or occasionally a dance double) engaging in martial-arts moves as Yoshimi attempts to stave off the multiplying hordes of villainous pink robots, glow-in-the-dark figures that reminded me of the 1982 Disney sci-fi movie "Tron".
He smoked and drank prodigiously while bunnyhopping across the stage with astonishingly nimble footwork for a man his size.
Their Giovanni showed confidence in handling the large Millennium Centre stage, via the nimble reconfiguration of block sets to suggest house, street, garden.
Dexter's nimble blocking, updated by the stage director Max Charruyer, keeps the characters downstage, allowing voices to project and subtleties of acting to register.
The director, Francesca Zambello, did everything possible to give the performance the allure of a staged production, including nimble dance routines and projections to convey scene changes, as this generational saga progresses.
