Word: backdrop
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only this time it is played to chill the listener with the dread of a man waiting for saviors who will never come, to the backdrop of the crashing surf against the shore...
Earth Opera achieved it that night for me and possibly for the rest of us in the room, all to the backdrop of the muted political reality of the Resistance, whose representatives talked soft and compelling sense between sets...
...affairs of the novel take place against a backdrop of news headlines, introduced peripherally by the author. Like "matters of fate" they impinge hardly at all upon the consciousness of the adulterers. Kennedy's assassination, for example, does not deter a drunken party, for after all, as the host Freddy Thorne says, "I've bought all the booze...
...inarticulate agony. But the dance is full of sound-the staccato rhythms of the dancers' feet, their sudden grunts and cries of desperation and, as the pace increases, the amplified lub-dub of a beating heart. A blood-red column rises like a fever thermometer against the black backdrop and dramatically expands to encompass the entire stage. The ballet closes on a muted note of hope: a boy and a girl are dancing together-albeit distantly-and a church organ is playing...
...lighting has been a blanketing red or blue. Now, two spot lights flash onto the floor just ahead of the dancers (Scott Kemper, Lindsay Ann Crouse). The dancers beckon the light-dots backwards, and as the spots climb on to the backdrop, they become beach-balls, rolling along the shadows of dancers' extended arms or bouncing between the two. The spots free themselves, scurry around the room as the dancers desperately attempt to pounce back into the light now two dimensional again. This section ends, the dancers on their backs, legs pointing upwards, with the dots poised just above--inverted...