Sure, the way she melds rigorous structure with repetitive balletic movement risks translating into pleasing but perfunctory dance -- easy on the eyes and just as easily forgotten.
Eye contact and verbal exchanges are perfunctory or simply avoided.
Yet Mason Bates's score is too ebulliently unwieldy, and the work's flirtation with surrealism – a blinking digital eye, a wardrobe change into animal suits – feels oddly perfunctory.
Corzine's perfunctory handshakes and hugs lasted a second, with the barest of eye contact, before he turned away toward someone else.
Yet still they smile mechanically at start and finish, perform to music, wear lots of sparkly eye shadow and, most maddeningly, do utterly ridiculous and perfunctory dance steps in staccato bursts between the tumbling sequences.
The band performed all of them on Sunday in a set that was sometimes transcendent, as on the exuberant rebuke "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You," and sometimes a little less than perfunctory, as on "Love Me Already" and "I'm Making Eyes at You," neither of which cohered.
Xiomara Reyes, dainty and perfunctory as Anne, was miscast as anyone who would catch a monarch's eye.
Rembrandt in the dying months, the last light in his eyes, still makes himself felt in the astonishing brushwork – distressed, perfunctory, thickening in skeins or wearing fine as skin, slow, pensive, or majestically resurgent, always rising to meet the human condition.
