The global economic crisis underscores other Israeli advantages, including a vibrant democracy, the rule of law — particularly individual equality before the law — and a still potent can-do tradition that stems from the way the country was founded and its survival against seemingly impossible odds.
These come, as does everything here, through finely wrought, sensual phrase-work, in the tradition of potent choreographers like Trisha Brown (whose 1973 work "Spanish Dance" was quoted), Vicky Shick and Susan Rethorst, for whom Ms. Hansen dances.
Ann Pellaton's bold red, white and blue fish bursts beyond its borders with energy and has an iconic quality, somewhat in the tradition of potent fish symbols used in mythology or religion or as a marker for environmental issues.
The mother of them all is Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1948 "The Red Shoes," one of the most beautiful movies ever made — its star, the budding ballerina Vicky Page, is played by the flame-haired Moira Shearer — and therefore an especially potent contributor to the tradition.
But the objects portend a personal vision; they belong to a tradition of small, potent sculpture that includes Ken Price and early Joel Shapiro.
In the Chinese-Malaysian tradition, the glimmering, potent brew is served with thick slices of Hainanese bread (2.40 ringgit), either steamed into a pillowy texture or toasted on charcoal.
They manage the rare feat of melding pop and politics into a potent mix, and continue a tradition – begun by the likes of Smith & Mighty, Tricky and Massive Attack – of reinterpreting pop, hip-hop and soul through the filter of black British life.
But they also complain that he has been less than a potent political force in, say, the tradition of either Representative Charles B. Rangel of Harlem or former Representative Floyd H. Flake of Queens.
Their vocal invention and vocal learning faculties are real and sufficiently potent to, at times, uphold vocal traditions.
Massenet provides the opportunity both for simple, elegant lyricism and for dramatic declamation, channeling the tradition of the French "mélodrame," a potent alternation of singing and underscored speech that he used to great effect in "Manon".
