In India, staging candle-lit marches, going to discotheques .
She stands on the stage, with candles burning hazily like underwater flares, and, as the camera swims around her, she melts.
Before Stefan Asbury conducted the opening work, Vaughan Williams's "Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis," the lights at the Brooklyn Academy of Music were extinguished and a vocal quartet from the New York Virtuoso Singers walked to the front of the stage, bearing candles, to sing Tallis's setting of Psalm 2, on which the Vaughan Williams work is based.
At the back of the stage, 95 candles were lit before dawn, one for each year of his life.
We saw kids standing on stage, flickering candles of young life on a platform, lighting our crowd with hope.
To supplant memories of the bloodstained columns of the temple, it staged a candle-lit memorial service earlier this month at the site, where the actor Omar Sharif read what was called "a message of apology and sorrow" that had been written by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Naguib Mahfouz.
In his autobiography, Hardee claimed he was the first to attempt the 'banger-up-the-bum' routine, later perfected and performed by Greatest Show on Legs co-star Chris Lynam, in which a firework (occasionally a three-stage Roman Candle) was clenched between the buttocks and lit to a recording of Ethel Merman singing "There's No Business Like Show Business".
From a stage adorned with candles and flowers there was talk of internal "rivers", of "waters flowing", and of other opaque symbolism.
By 4am, nonsensical things have started to happen – a group of bare-nippled ladies on stage holding inflatable candles; a man drumming in full warrior costume – and I haven't even taken drugs.
Eventually, the curtain rose to a beautiful setting: a stage filled with candles and yellow lights, scattered with photos of Glover's spiritual fathers, be they dance legends or religious figures like Gandhi.
