There is also a street-theater aspect to "Jackass," and the anti-social acting out has much in common with more obviously artistic provocations like Lars von Trier's "Idiots" and Harmony Korine's "Trash Humpers".
Even on a minor night with Pilobolus Dance Theater, multiple aspects of the company's ready charm keep revealing themselves.
But with no resort connected to the theaters, this aspect will be lost, so the concerts are being labeled as a sister event, All Tomorrow's Parties Presents I'll Be Your Mirror.
With elaborate costumes, highly choreographed routines and sometimes mini-narratives with a political spin, it is "a performance form that combines dance, theater and aspects of drag," Mr. Harder said.
I yield to very few in my admiration of Balanchine's exact British contemporary Frederick Ashton, but although he made more story ballets and exemplified many of the best aspects of British theater and developed aspects of dance musicality that truly do not pale beside Balanchine's, even he was a slighter and less diverse artist.
In books like "Shakespearean Negotiations" (1988) and "Hamlet in Purgatory" (2001), he has imagined the plays as unwritten, in the state of being composed, with the theater itself an aspect of the flux of late-16th-century rite and ritual; he has studied the sources for the plays both hidden and direct, and steeped himself in contemporary belief and power systems and taboos.
Last month, Harvard University Press reissued a posthumous compilation of his writing, "The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theater & Other Aspects of Popular Culture".
Within this context, theater pieces combined aspects of dance and the visual arts.
This being the year 2000, the theater-as-therapy aspect is much more upfront.
