In sports, as in economics, China is, in the name of improving performance, abandoning its top-down Communist methods and adopting more market-driven approaches.
As directed by Assayas, her performance abandons her powerfully emotional near-neutrality and veers and lurches between familiarly indicative, visually legible expressions.
And in the last few decades, he said, many audiences at opera performances have abandoned pretenses, yelling "Bravo" when they feel like it. .
Mr. Acconci, who abandoned performance art in the 1980s for sculpture and installations, said in an interview that he believes performance art to be, by definition, ephemeral, that he questions whether it should be done again at all, and that he wonders if building an institute to celebrate the medium even makes sense.
I've seen short stories told by Powerpoint, cabaret and performance poetry in abandoned mills.
Ms. López's performance as the abandoned wife in Antonio Gades's familiar "Blood Wedding" was a revelation.
The old antiphonal method of performance was eventually abandoned, and responsorial singing by a soloist or soloists and a choir became the norm.
His contribution was "The Great Unrest," a monthlong performance in an abandoned, derelict theatre-and-dance hall in the south of Iceland, far from Reykjavík.
Lauduree, a k a Ray (Perla Haney-Jardine, in a striking breakout performance), finds herself abandoned when Tanya (Marin Ireland) impulsively drives to Hollywood in a battered pickup truck to pursue a career as a makeup artist, leaving only a note and $50.
But that's not stopping an arts coalition in Washington DC from creating an ambitious new gallery and performance space in abandoned underground tunnels.
