But "Ancient Springs," performed on Saturday night at the Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, is an imaginative, beautifully performed pleasure because it can be looked at simply as dancing.
Mother Dolores started visiting Regina Laudis on breaks from performing "The Pleasure of His Company" on Broadway, a role that earned her a Tony nomination, and entered shortly after.
Throughout classical texts, we find that daos are spoken, heard, forgotten, transmitted, learned, studied, understood and misunderstood, distorted, mastered, and performed with pleasure.
Zeena Parkins, who composed the score, was the evening's one unalloyed pleasure, performing at the side of the stage on odd-looking electronic musical gear in a dress that looked as if it had been cut from FedEx envelopes.
But he didn't get here by hitting any of the traditional markers, and when Hillary Clinton repeated her obviously rehearsed "trumped-up trickle-down economics" line and smiled at nobody, it was like watching a robot take pleasure performing a function its maker had come to feel deeply unsure of.
The Lumina String Quartet will perform "Quiet Pleasures: Music and Still Life," presented by the group Ridotto in conjunction with the exhibition "Feast the Eye, Fool the Eye: Still-Life and Trompe-l'Oeil Paintings From the Oscar and Maria Salzer Collection," at the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington.
That pendulum swing of emotion makes it both a joy to perform and a pleasure to watch.
Being onstage and performing is a great pleasure for me.
In the early 1960s, Jansch graduated from playing for his own pleasure to performing for an audience.
Each young musician has talked, above all, about the pleasure of performing.
