Bringing together a cast of three flamenco dancers, three hip-hop dancers, and three B-boys, including Chey Jurado, Spain's national champion, Titanium promises to explore the common ground between these different dance cultures, their elemental showmanship and their percussive virtuosity.
On popularity, he didn't seek to match the populist showmanship of his main competitor, Boris Johnson, or his former boss, William Hague.
While he may be inspired by the likes of Heston Blumenthal and Ferran Adrià, Faure brings another element to the table, his sense of theatre and showmanship, as those that choose one of the tasting menus get treated to the chef himself spectacularly preparing his mystical molecular recipes in front of them.
But their charm and showmanship made them a pleasure to see – something not lost on Becker.
I had thought that the subject matter would be too 'drab' for a director with such visual flair and obvious showmanship, but Stephen had spotted a potential in the script that I had been blind to.
Founded just four years ago by Lei Jun, a digital entrepreneur known as the Chinese Steve Jobs for his showmanship and penchant for wearing jeans on stage, Xiaomi will begin exporting phones to countries including Brazil, Russia, India, Turkey and Mexico this year.
Guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor are now grizzled, grey-haired men, but still pack the showmanship and musicianship of real rock legends, even if this does mean indulgences such as drum battles (with Taylor's son, Rufus) and guitar solos that presumably require enough electricity to power a small town.
But instead of competing technologically, and winning, he turned to showmanship and lost.It is true, and was the basis of Edison's showmanship, that low-frequency alternating current can be more hazardous than an equivalent direct current.
Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet, showmanship in the tech industry and Carl Icahn's rumoured investment in RIM, maker of BlackBerry.
LAST spring, when French officials first mooted the idea of convening a Euro-Balkan summin in Zagreb, it sounded like an exercise in diplomatic showmanship that could easily backfire.
But it was inevitable that comparisons would be drawn between Mr Cook's understated approach on stage and that of Steve Jobs, his predecessor, whose sense of showmanship had turned so many Apple product launches into quasi-religious experiences.
