During his time at P.S. 122, Russell helped showcase and support a particular style of performance: one that was politically based, confrontational, but anchored in the poetics of the theatre, too.
"But you must also be politically savvy, not confrontational.'' A protégé can look for signs that he or she is stepping on a mentor's toes, Dr. Sonnenfeld said.
Géricault had deliberately sought to be both politically and artistically confrontational.
Just in time for the twin apocalypses of a Trump presidency and a hard Brexit, artist and former Crass member Gee Vaucher has put together a retrospective show of her confrontational, politically charged artworks, spanning her entire 50-odd year career.
Pressed for details of his character, friends and acquaintances have described a young man who was competitive but not cutthroat, politically opinionated but not confrontational, nerdy but not painfully so.
Throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s, other distributors tried to match Miramax dollar for dollar, hit for hit, by throwing money at movies that, as the stakes and studio-indie investments grew, shifted attention and resources away from work that was not simply independent in their initial financing but also aesthetically and politically adventurous, shocking, even confrontational.
So you have a long history of confrontational and politically relevant theatre!
Russia's Ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin disparaged the proposed UN resolution on Srebrenica as "not constructive, confrontational and politically motivated".
Although his radio delivery is mainly characterized as confrontational and politically themed, he also ruminates on medicine, nutrition, music, literature, history, theology, philosophy, sports, business, economics, and culture, and tells personal anecdotes.
The video is everything the halftime show historically has not been: politically charged, visually daring, sexy, confrontational, revelling in Southern black femininity.
