Smart costume captures the time-matter which constitutes a performance, and yet because the costume is also the process of generating the data space from biometric and biomechanical impulses it frames the body in terms of its "sensorial architecture" (Tomas 1989).
Of course, she looked gorgeous -- and a combination of arty film footage, smart costume changes, and strobe lights only accentuated her elegant silhouette.
The close quarters also allow viewers a good look at the smart costumes, by Shana Goldberger.
On Friday night the pianist Taka Kigawa and the violinist Miranda Cuckson were a source of constant, thrumming pleasure (as were Candice Thompson's smart costumes).
IN THE NEXT ROOM or the vibrator play By Sarah Ruhl; directed by Les Waters; sets by Annie Smart; costumes by David Zinn; lighting by Russell H. Champa; sound by Bray Poor; music by Jonathan Bell.
Mr. Buntrock, who won many admirers on Broadway in 2008 for his intimate staging of "Sunday in the Park With George," the Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine musical, has set the story in the early 1980s or so, vividly evoked by David Farley's simple sets and smart costumes.
Technically, "Jackpot" is a feast, from Mr. Mullen's visuals to Michele Montague's set design and Bic Owen's smart costuming; it may be one of the few movies where the music supervisor, Jonathan Daniel, deserves his prominent credit, as does the composer Stuart Matthewman.
Over-smart costuming does not make for a convincing production.
Much as Cléo flits from one item of clothing to the next (Claudia Stephens designed the smart, layered costumes), Ms. Parson and Mr. Lazar juxtapose materials, moods, textures.
Participants dressed in smart traditional costumes stand on the two sides and the master of ceremonies stands in front of the statue of Ba Chua.
Awkward in their depiction of communal fervour – expressed here in a Clintonesque double-handshake and arm-squeeze manoeuvre – and smart-casual costumes, ENO's chorus lacks the necessary agility for Handel's fugues.
