Though Citkowitz writes in plain, straightforward prose — almost another language compared to Cheever's baroque, performative style — both stories examine the ways in which objects can lose their outward function and meaning and become, instead, storehouses of guilt and pain.
The localized Shakespeare is another performative style, particularly favoured in the earlier years, which imported a definite Indian flavour and colouring to transform the alien vastness of the text into an accessible familiarity.
Both these productions, the universalized Shakespeare, Raja Lear, and the localized Shakespeare, Samrat Lear, though divergent in their performative styles, shared a conventional interpretative stance.
The National School of Drama, in New Delhi, has a tradition of inviting directors from different parts of the country and from abroad to train their students in a variety of performative styles.
Rather, he was the product of a masculine culture that aspired to be like a pimp, that embraced the cool performative styles of the players (pronounced "playas"), the "macks," the hustlers, who not only circulated in the jazz world but whose walk and talk also drew from the well of black music.
It was the artistic community in Kansas City, Missouri, that helped her develop her own performative, fantastical style.
Olivier Krug arrives at the table in full performative mode.
Aside from the lyrical style and performative delivery, hip hop is in many ways the cultural backdrop, the zeitgeist of the generation of the 1990s and into the new millennium.
Their methods were, above all, performative, and their communication style was exaggerated and theatrical rather than dry and political.
Miliband doesn't act as much as Blair, but there's still a self-conscious, performative quality to his speaking style.
Some academics argue that populism necessarily comes with a performative element: it is about the style, the show.
