His satirical routine kept growing with the size of his theaters, turning rock-star comedy into a delirious spectacle, performance art for the masses.
With characters like the Steam Powered Tentacle Boulder, Uchu Chu the Space Bug and Call-Me-Kevin (above) and story lines that hybridize Japanese monster movies and the W.W.E., Kaiju is equal parts competitive spectacle, performance art and manga-style cartoonish whimsy.
Since joining the faculty at Chicago, I have taught courses in German Cinema (e.g., Weimar Cinema; German Cinema 1945-1989; Fassbinder: Melodrama, Politics, and Poetics; The Cinema of Catastrophe), on theories of spectacle; performance theory; and the intersections of cinema, theater, and opera.
Yet it managed to do so by dint of good old-fashioned spectacle, fine performances from Russell Crowe and his fellow cast and a bushel of scenes of unforgettable virtuosity from director Darren Aronofsky.
The Biggest Weekend is going to be a once-in-a-lifetime festival for everyone that loves music, whether you are at the venues in person or enjoying the whole spectacle of performances across BBC services.
Or Kelly Clarkson finding her way into (and then ripping the stuffing out of) "(You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman". In a 3 1/2-hour blur of high-tech spectacle, these performances felt like reaffirmations of core musical values — honest, unaffected, simple.
Those elements that serve the aesthetics of the art of theatre can involve everything from what the performers need to reach the artistic standards deemed proper before a performance starts to what they need to support the required amount of spectacle during performance, whether it be a bare stage or a stage with enormous movable sets and a spectacular array of props.
She then expanded the idea to have the skater's performance evoke a kind of angelic figure, along with "a fragility there of maintaining a spectacle or performance".
Like Beckett, Hofmann translates existential crisis into absurdist spectacle, a performance that displaces truth or verifiability.
You could call the presentation — described as "a meditation on light, nature and femininity" — part pop spectacle, part performance piece.
