The show was sort of a primer on the Internet.
And how about a bit of a primer on this year's fest?
The excellent wine list is something of a primer on Spanish wines, with labels replicated alongside each listing.
Judge Sciarrino's order, which managed to quote both Wikipedia and "Hamlet," meanwhile served as something of a primer for the technologically challenged.
Talking of funk, little comes close to this by Hieroglyphic Being – originally from 2012 but now repackaged as part of a primer on the producer from Planet Mu records, out this week.
Its monologues, play snippets and musical interludes -- interrupted regularly for re-enactments of Brecht's cheekily evasive testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee -- constitute something of a primer on the man and his work.
The event was also something of a primer for Danspace Project's Judson Now, an ambitious three-month Platform series that began on Wednesday and will explore Judson's influence.
While Mr. Levy's book is meant to be a manual — "a how-to for all those with an instinct to raise funds and those who harbor fears or qualms about doing so," he says — Mr. Kaiser's provides something of a primer for those looking to rescue ailing arts organizations.
Composed in cinematic style of fast-moving scenes that shift between Jewish and Arab households in villages in Israel, with an occasional digression to the streets of Jerusalem, the neatly carpentered, skillfully performed "Night Blooming Jasmine" manages to be instructive and engaging in the manner of a primer.
Curiously, the Random House edition, sold through bookstores, has far outdistanced the Houghton Mifflin one, sold through school channels; the explanation may be that some old-line educators have tended to be suspicious of a primer produced by a man who signs himself "Dr".
Ronald K. Brown's repertory program, presented at the Joyce Theater on Thursday as an alternative to his evening-length "One Shot," is something of a primer to his magnificently textured style, which shifts from earthy, raw-powered movement to jumps that send dancers sailing into the air like spirits.
