In "Fratres" Mr. Taylor constructs nine solos that mirror the music, which shifts between a recurring percussive beat and shimmering strings.
What held the images together was the mesmerizing lighting, which shifted between a sepia veil and a range of the palest greens, blues and yellows.
The documentary, which shifts between Spain and Peru, feels so real that the people under its microscope will seem as familiar as your next-door neighbors.
Mr. Shechter, who designed the costumes, is also responsible for much of the music, which shifts between a cacophony of snare drums and a spare, brief piano piece.
The play, which shifts between 1999 and 1993, surrounds these men with a gallery of sharply drawn characters who reveal Mr. Shinn's precise ear for social nuances of speech.
The two major pieces are a three-part suite of Morricone's "Once Upon a Time in the West", which shifts between haunting, tense and elegiac, and a poignant 10-minute take on "The Godfather".
What we said: "Amid ballads such as Whiskey Bottle, there's Graveyard Shift, which shifts between Pixiesesque loud and quiet parts; here it's only Tweedy's Illinois twang that marks them out from their grunge peers," wrote Lanre Bakare, in the Guardian.
Figures like Deeti, merely hinted at in the official record, have long preoccupied Ghosh — as in his elegant travelogue "In an Antique Land," which shifted between Egypt and India, the 12th century and the 1980s, as he hunted for the story of a slave mentioned in letters between an Arab-Jewish merchant in Mangalore and his associates in Cairo.
Juanes gets a musician's workout in songs like "Me Enamora" ("It Makes Me Fall in Love") which shifts between twin-guitar Southern rock and Colombian cumbia, "Tres" ("Three"), which bounces ahead on a rural accordion, and "Bailala" ("Dance to It"), which places a fierce six-beat Colombian rhythm behind Juanes's bluesy lead.
A choreographer fascinated by New York's sprawling urban landscape presents "The Island of Misfit Toys," a premiere to music by Lou Reed that looks at the dark side of human nature, and a revival of "City of Twist," which shifts between wild urban energy and moments of solitude.
So I wasn't particularly looking forward to "Rainbow," which shifts between scenes of Garland suffering on stage and in her hotel room at the expense of Mickey (Stephen Hagan), her fiance, and Anthony (the excellent Hilton McRae), her adoring but wary gay pianist.
