The young dalang, or shadow puppet master, I Made Sidia, still in his 20's, is from one of the great artistic families on the island of Bali.
A man with all the moral fibre of a toothpick, Gove is bringing back the idea of the Grand Vizier - the unscrupulous back-room fixer waiting patiently in the shadows to do his dark masters bidding, before of course making a play for the throne himself.
He was required to shadow a masters course and this gave him practical ways to conduct his research.
The post-Balanchine generation was perhaps so firmly in the shadow of the master that it was almost impossible to re-imagine where the art form could go.
Though Perriand subscribed to Le Corbusier's aesthetic ideals, her photos testify to the fact that she thought for herself, even when she was young and in the shadow of a master whose ideas would dominate architecture and urban planning for decades.
Nasser was a flawed and tragic idol by the time Gaddafi had acquired the means to emulate him, but an immensely potent one all the same, and had he lived, the disciple would have remained in the shadow of the master.
Gerald Okamura as The Hard Master, Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow's ninja master.
The shadow of horror master John Carpenter looms large, as the composers use woozy digital strings, warbling lead synths lines, lonely reverberated piano, and ominous droning low tones to evoke an enticingly dark atmosphere throughout the season.
He was "the greatest colorist who ever lived," wrote French critic Théophile Gautier, "greater than Titian, Rubens, or Rembrandt" because he created light without violent contrasts and maintained the strength of hue and shadow, which French master Eugène Delacroix (1798 1863) said, "We are always told is impossible" (4 ).
But since Miguel Angel Sánchez moved to Cairo in 2009, he has singled out the individual, bathing them in dramatic light and shadows like old master portraits.
This week offers variations on that theme from two formidable dramatists who have never shied from the shadows: the British master of silence HAROLD PINTER and the all-American misanthrope NEIL LaBUTE.
