A romantic relationship with American performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson rejuvenated him again in the mid-1990s, resulting in the playful Set the Twilight Reeling (1997) and the harder-hitting Ecstasy (2000).
MTV's John Walker labelled it as her most "powerful performance yet", while Arienne Thompson of USA Today wrote that it was "powerful and subdued" compared to the "flamboyant and playful" set Perry was known for.
And they gave a vital account of the playful set of variations that end the work.
He reveals monochrome prints, a mixture of bizarre, playful set-ups, and more sinister headshots of Aboriginal convicts, bedraggled, squinting into the camera, awaiting execution.
(Anthony Tommasini) ★ 'Il Barbiere Di Siviglia' (Saturday and Tuesday) Bartlett Sher's popular 2006 production of Rossini's "Barbiere di Siviglia" conveys the opera's comic confusions through fluid staging and a playful set (all movable doors, staircases and potted orange trees).
Baggini is an efficient (and amiably opinionated) sketcher of the major ideas, and names Life of Brian as one of his recommended "philosophical films" in a playful set of appendices.
When the strings go all froufrou and Disneyish, and Björk begins I've Seen It All, a playful set piece dating from the Dancer in the Dark soundtrack a decade ago, your ears take a moment to recalibrate to the conventional tunefulness (Vulnicura's melodies take some finding).
There follows a playful set, with much campy, spasmodic dancing from the man himself that is at its finest during 16th & Valencia Roxy Music, his tribute to "a little band you probably haven't heard of, I think they're going to be big someday".
Though rock'n'roll had arrived to displace jazz from the pop charts, Dankworth also joined that exclusive group of jazz musicians who occasionally made it back there: Experiments with Mice (1956, a playful set of jazz variations on Three Blind Mice) and African Waltz (1960) both invaded the British Top 10.
A dance party led by the new-wave veteran Boy George, who long ago reinvented himself as a celebrity D.J. Don't go expecting to hear golden oldies: his frenetic, slightly playful sets draw heavily from house music and gesture occasionally toward the synthetic sound of electro; you may be surprised to find out how serious he is about making people dance.
