Inevitably, it was a somewhat insiderish event, and had a scrapbook feel, with snapshot scenes variously representing performance, training and creation.
It is a tremendous performance, buttressed by Jamie Lloyd's production which punctuates Gems's snapshot scenes with the exaggerated click of a camera shutter.
Presented in Adobe's signature style, with a series of snapshot scenes and actors playing multiple roles, the show, at the Ohio Theater in SoHo through April 15, is nonetheless the first the nine-year-old company has attempted on a somber theme, and it's not a mix it appears to have figured out yet.
"Warping" [M.O. Franz, B. Schölkopf, H.A. Mallot, H.H. Bülthoff, Where did I take that snapshot? Scene-based homing by image matching, Biological Cybernetics 79 (3) (1998) 191 202] is an attractive homing method since it does not require an external compass.
"Listen, I'd like you to stay," she tells him, back at her hotel, and in an elegant series of elliptical snapshot scenes, they eventually find themselves in bed together.
He had left his own past behind an iron one; many of the blurred snapshot-scenes he produced in the 60s were of relatives he'd never see again, childhood locations become inaccessible.
He hoards images until these are catalysed by some other image, be it a snapshot, a scene from a film, another painting.
Pina Bausch's "travelogue" works are less portraits of places than composites of haphazard snapshots, each scene filtered through the weird and sometimes wonderful lenses of Bausch's international, multigenerational performers.
Eggleston's affectless, snapshot-like scenes of worn-out plantations and suburban driveways – southern life at its most blandly nondescript – were partly responsible.
He covers only a fraction of the roads, but gives us snapshots of scenes and snippets of conversations in a way impossible if travelling by anything other than shank's pony.
