Drawing on Ms. Isaacs's journal entries, the work begins with a voice-over reciting things she has lost, including her right knee and her maidenhood.
These come mostly through a voice-over reciting her various thoughts on performance and her search to find, and then transcend, her own way of moving, as she assimilated both classical Japanese traditions and the radical postmodern experimentation of Judson Dance Theater in New York.
A voice-over recites, "A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving".
An amplified voice-over recites sentences and fragments from Kafka's journals: "Writers speak a stench," for example, and "If I am condemned, then I am not only condemned to die, but also condemned to struggle till I die".
Voice-over recites a series of horrible facts about less fortunate parts of the world: in the Middle East half the children die before their sixth birthday, and so on.
Like its predecessors "49 Up" begins with black-and-white images of British children frolicking on a playground, as a portentous voice-over recites a Jesuit maxim: "Give me the child until he is 7, and I will show you the man".
The one's you can watch over and over again, reciting every line as the clicker falls in between the cushions of the sofa, not to be searched for again until the final credits roll.
So along with musical interludes, which change with the seasons, two voice-over professionals recite the Dr. Bass's credentials and those of his partners and associates.
This often means reading and reciting them over and over again until they are memorized.
