In "Chui Chai" the curtain opened on a pitch-black stage illuminated by six spotlights.
When they suddenly take center stage, illuminated by the flash and flicker of Molotov cocktails, we feign surprise.
Fittingly, Ms. Yerbabuena begins "Signs and Wonders" standing on a darkened stage illuminated only by an overhead light.
Vast banks of lights of many shapes and sizes bordered the stage, illuminating the audience as well as the dancers.
A projectionist sits in front of the stage, illuminating it and the actors with a solid white light that throws silhouettes on the wall.
The unexpected connections made between these three are like the lightning that flares on stage, illuminating a China caught between change and tradition.
On a stage illuminated only by the dim blue light of lamps on music stands, the superb flutist Erin Lesser played lines that fluttered, dipped and soared over a bass drum that rolled like distant thunder.
But surely nobody could feel short-changed by the set's highlight, as Ivar steps to the front of the stage, illuminated by a torch, to play an unplugged song innocently paying tribute to his late hero Lou Reed.
At the start of "The Ulysses Syndrome," Jonah Bokaer and Tsvi, his Tunisian-born father, take their places at the back of a stage illuminated by six fluorescent tubes, arranged in a hexagon, each dangling like a low swing.
Sean Combs was dancing: slow, deliberate, slightly awkward movements on a big stage, illuminated only by angelic light from the screen above, which was flashing slow-motion clips of the Notorious B.I.G., a k a Biggie Smalls.
