The piece, created last year for the Ailey company and set to music by Duke Ellington, Roy Davis Jr., Paul Johnson and Fela Anikulapo Kuti, excitingly juxtaposes urgent, rooted whole-body movement with stylish shifting lineups that recall the moves of rock backup singers in the 1950's.
But his "Labess II," set to a cappella music by Zap Mama, is essentially just stylish, breezy play in handsomely shifting ranks created by Mr. Brown for eight dancers (Ms. Watson, Kim Y. Bears, Ms. Boykin, Ms. Vogt, Willia-Noel Montague, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Gella and Gabriele Tesfa Guma).
Alexander Schulin's stylish production is alert to the opera's shifting moods and keeps the many arias dramatically lively without resorting to contrived action.
The show is set in a timeless yet modern, vaguely North African milieu; Paul Zoller's stylish set is a large wooden box with shifting walls that keep literally closing in on the tortured, ill-fated characters.
Jackie Rogers, Designer Jackie Rogers dotes on her 1987 BMW, a black two-door stick-shift 635 CSi that is as raffishly stylish as it is rare.
The Ampera, which he calls an "iPad on wheels", is designed to change all that and Vauxhall hopes that its stylish shape, premium touches and advanced battery technology will help it shift 10,000 models across Europe this year.
Shifting to his jazz mode, Mr. Previn was the stylish accompanist for three encores, songs by Arlen, Ellington and Van Heusen.
Shape-shifting ogres and disintegrating goblins are rendered with stylish CG, but human emotions remain firmly at the heart of the piece.
The company has been hustling to shift from bolting together boxy PCs at its U.S. factories to designing stylish, colorful laptop computers built by East Asian contract manufacturers and distributed through thousands of retail outlets around the globe.
The delicately embroidered gold-and-green shift that Galliano made for Nicole Kidman for the 1997 Academy Awards assured her a role among Hollywood's most stylish women.
