For Jurgen and Rudolfo, it's the Show, a $93-a-ticket 93-a-ticket 93-a-ticketbombaspectacleions of Wagner by a Euro-synth duo called Sturm and Drang.
There the sovereign's official birthday is still celebrated with the Trooping the Colour, a spectacle performed by plumed cavalry units and marching bands.
If there is one thing at which Brazilians excel, it is putting on a show — whether Carnival or, as is the case in São Miguel das Missões, the light and sound spectacle performed every night after dark.
Official commemorations Saturday of the third anniversary of the uprising against Mubarak were transformed into what amounted to rallies lionizing Sisi, with light shows, military flyovers and song-and-dance spectacles performed before huge, adoring crowds.
Official commemorations of Saturday's third anniversary of Egypt's uprising against Hosni Mubarak were transformed into what had the feel of campaign-style rallies for Sisi, with song-and-dance spectacles performed before huge, adoring crowds across the country.
Even the copious pyrotechnics, smoke machines and fireworks involved can't make this a vaguely emotive performance, which is not helped by the fact that in June the sun doesn't set in Bergen till after 11pm so the whole spectacle is performed in broad daylight.
For once, you can see where every last cent of your ticket dollar has gone; but it's the kind of huge show that only makes commercial sense with economies of scale, requiring that the spectacle be performed hundreds of times to earn back the development costs.
These spectacles were performed at the Roman Games mostly involving young girls, who were frequently devoured or maimed in the process – a grand finale.
Considering that athletic prowess -- or the lack of it -- can brand us for life as indelibly as any religious, racial or sexual marker, it's surprising that more artists in the 80's and 90's didn't see sports as a vehicle to explore their preoccupations with group identity, adolescent fantasy, the society of the spectacle, the performing self and the politics of the body.
The Tempest is explicitly concerned with its own nature as a play, frequently drawing links between Prospero's art and theatrical illusion; the shipwreck was a spectacle that Ariel performed, while Antonio and Sebastian are cast in a troop to act.
Among the 105 subjects, 90 (90.5%) patients required spectacles to perform daily activities.
