At City Ballet some dance is still performed in three-dimensional settings with costumes more elaborate than chiffon shifts and shirts, with set elements that range from colorful backdrops to platforms, screens and chairs, and with dancers dressed in everything from kimonos to cowboy hats.
All the set elements were recycled, with almost zero waste.
Set elements must rush into place and fly apart.
Backdrops and other extraneous set elements have disappeared; the number of dancers has been reduced.
The photos, several of which will be used as set elements in the dance, are based on the concept of the female manifestation of God in the cabala.
In place of the statues there will be what Ms. Shemy calls "raw construction-site set elements," providing avenues to follow and obstacles to confront.
Some paused to stand; another sat for a moment in one of the three basic chairs that made up the only set elements.
Meanwhile, by adding the weighted information, the level set elements can be updated faster and the image segmentation can be achieved with fewer iterations.
Set elements for all four plays include: truck tyres, wooden sheets, timbers and hundreds of white plastic chairs; microphones dangle; television screens above head height dot encircling walls; projections fill a film-sized screen.
The set elements introduced to Before and After by Lucas - underwear, fluorescent lighting tubes and an enormous masturbating arm - are just the kind of things that gained her a reputation as an in-your-face, confrontational artist.
So did the sculptural set elements created by Isamu Noguchi for Martha Graham in a partnership that began in 1935, a decade after the demise of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
