This production, which travels to the Brooklyn Academy of Music early next year, reminds us of the power of fables and myths that transform grim events into raptly told, celebratory tales.
To many of its listeners, hip-hop has been a realm of musical and verbal innovation, transforming grim reality into art.
Still, Akinti has acquitted himself with substantial élan and transformed a grim place into a thing of beauty.
Through these works, Ms. Bhuta transformed otherwise grim spaces into fragrant environments where other living forms (in this case wasps) could find a home.
The euphoria of Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution, during which intellectuals and activists peacefully transformed a grim Soviet satellite into a vibrant democracy, was not to last forever.
Cemeteries were transformed from grim charnel grounds to earthly Edens, where temple-tombs popped up like mushrooms, and transcendent meetings took place.
After it was announced that only about 69,000 jobs were created during May — and that the unemployment rate rose slightly, to 8.2 percent — some observers who had expressed cautious optimism as recently as 8 29 a.m. were instantly transformed into grim Cassandras.
The Haber plant at Ludwigshafen, run by the chemical giant BASF, transformed that grim picture exactly 100 years ago – by churning out ammonia in industrial quantities for the first time, triggering a green revolution.
Porridge is one of those dishes which, made well, can be ambrosial, as the French heroine of that wonderful film Babette's Feast proved when she transformed the grim sludge that the Danes call øllebrød, a kind of rye porridge, into a delightful morning treat.
My massively altered state somehow transformed the grim thoroughfare of Spanish bars and cheap shoe shops that was Shoreditch High Street into some kind of techno-Vegas in heaven.
