In their scenes together, Smithson and Schmidt send off subtle sparks that leave a wonderful afterglow, one more telling touch in a deeply satisfying production, one of Everyman's finest in recent years.
But this new club, inside the Bombay Rooms, is indeed in Baden-Baden, the historic and elegant Black Forest spa town that has a not-so-subtle new spark.
The dialogue between him and the orchestra didn't always flow, but he kept his flamboyant spark subtle and his dynamics reined in; his articulation of the Adagio's beautiful melody was simple and tender.
There were a number of filming techniques used to achieve the shots in the video, such as rotating the petri dish at different speeds to spark subtle movements and flow of the liquids.
While the Qatar-Turkey agreement is between governments that are politically aligned on one side of the Middle East and North Africa's multiple political divides, concern among Gulf states has also sparked subtle shifts that are bringing erstwhile opponents closer together.
This sparks a subtle revelation within Dumpy that is masked by accidental and unsubtle sexual wordplay.
This seemingly subtle act set off a spark that has excited, terrified, or otherwise captured the imagination of the computing world and has spread like wildfire everywhere.
It's tempting to see Thorson's attraction to Liberace as the stereotypical seduction of money and celebrity, but I think that Soderbergh is after something subtler and truer: the alchemical spark that brings two people together enduringly, both because of and despite their differences of circumstances.
All three selections featured subtle arrangements by Gil Goldstein, and each sparked impressive solo improvisations.
It was understated, but, in a formal, abstract work like this, even subtle changes in the dancers' focus can spark interpretation.
