Sentence examples for piece staged from inspiring English sources

In an earlier work, "Death of an Era," a performance piece staged at California State University, Dominguez Hills, in 1980, Mr. Shuler dropped a specially constructed 20-foot steel nail through a Cadillac.

That was more of a chamber work, but this piece, staged in the company's handsome new performing space, has an epic scope, and the troupe, under the direction of Davis McCallum, fares less well.

Still, revivals are tricky; modern dance can look dated with little effort, and at times the presentational style of "Mazurkas," a 10-section piece staged by Sarah Stackhouse, goes to a time-capsule place.

One ally was the Kurt Weill Foundation, whose president, Kim Kowalke, wanted to see the piece staged, ideally in 2000, the 100th anniversary of Weill's birth and the 50th of his death.

But it has been threaded together with admirable facility, and the piece — staged against a black backdrop that sets off Nicholas Georgiadis's sumptuous red and gold costumes — works surprisingly well.

For all the family anguish that the movie unspools, the resolution that Bertolucci offers — a vast set piece staged around the rehearsal of an outdoor opera production — proves strangely normative, as if Bertolucci were out to prove that all happy families are alike.

The story moves jauntily, its set pieces staged with theatrical flair and its snappy dialogue recalling Ben Hecht's.

Jiang Qing, the wife of Chairman Mao, created eight "model operas" that became the only theatrical pieces staged in all of China, their melodies reorchestrated as "revolutionary symphonies," which the Shanghai Symphony sometimes performed attired in soldiers' uniforms.

Works include a revival of Tudor's great psychological ballet from 1936, "Jardin aux Lilas," staged by the respected Tudor specialist Sallie Wilson, as well as a company première of "Mazurkas," Limón's 1958 chamber work set to Chopin piano pieces, staged by the former Limón company dancer Sarah Stackhouse.

At Dixon Place, at 309 East 26th Street, which specializes in works in progress, "AfterImages," 35 to 40 mini-works -- none longer than 10 minutes -- will be performed on the evening of Sept. 11, following up on pieces staged last October when writers and artists rushed to show their initial responses.

In fact I've spent so much of this year's Brighton fringe being marched round residential backstreets to watch pieces staged in people's sitting rooms, kitchens, bathrooms and backyards that I'm beginning to feel like I'm flat-hunting.