Onstage, his image and appearance changed yearly, from a leather-bondage-wearing ghoul feigning heroin injections to a deadpan guitar-strumming troubadour.
Onstage, video images pulsed behind the dancers on a large screen.
There was a fin-de-siècle feeling to it all: Raúl's solicitousness toward his older brother, onstage, the images of weeping delegates in the hall, and Fidel's exhortations to his fellow Cuban communists to carry on with their noble effort on behalf of humankind after he was gone.
It sounds fresh because it is accompanied by an unexpected image onstage.
Or rather, it takes a dancer, actor and choreographer of Carmen de Lavallade's gifts and experience to create a bare-bones image onstage and fill it with unabashed emotion.
Ms. Gillis no longer depends on her hair to create a striking visual image onstage -- in fact, it's pulled back in every piece she's presenting at the Joyce.
Yet many concert artists could be at times (to use Mr. Holland's words) both Dionysian and Apollonian simultaneously, and at other times one or the other — thus caring as much about the music and composer as their own projected image onstage.
Luciana Milano, a 20-year-old page at the RNC and a rising junior at Harvard, said she loves Ryan's image onstage, and off.
Today, in an era when few if any comedians are able to cultivate an enduring image onstage, Berle was a larger-than-life personality whose voracious comedic appetite not only prompted his notorious joke-stealing but also his willingness to don a dress.
Video projections by Mirit Tal echo the images onstage.
The images onstage that end the show, involving projections on unscrolled screens, are perplexingly indeterminate.
