plotless

THERE'S always room for a prince in ballet, whether he's the Sugar Plum Fairy's Cavalier; a man in a plotless ballet; The Little Prince (which BalletX recently performed); or a small child like Britain's Prince George, who finds joy in movement.

Other highlights include a performance by award-winning US jazz pianist Justin Kauflin on March 11, a dance show by the Sara Baras Flamenco Ballet Company on March 21 and a full-length, three-act plotless performance by the Paris Opera Ballet, backed by the Pasdeloup Orchestra -- the oldest symphony orchestra in France -- on March 29 and 30.

Virtually plotless, it moves in and out of a series of incidents, with the most interesting characters being Ariel and Caliban with the latter long adopted by various multi-culturalists as a kind of opressed Afrro-Caribbean heroic freedom fighter.

Hardly a conventional horror movie and far from scary (save for its protagonist), this unclassifiable miniature involving a man in a trailer in the woods trying to contact the Dark Lord is as funny and distinctive as it is nearly plotless. It's certain to expand the writer-director's audience from his more reality-tethered black comedy "Buzzard."

The three strongest stories simulate scientific articles, apparently plotless, their language austere.

The overall mood, we discover as the plotless piece meanders, is quite contradictory to what the posters promised.

The contributions, from a variety of researchers, academics, and consultants in the field, are organized in eleven chapters, providing a general introduction, followed by sections devoted to standard sampling methods and analyses, adaptive sampling methods, line transect sampling, removal and change-in-ratio methods, plotless sampling, and a variety of other related subjects.

Terry Gilliam is off trying to raise money for one of his plotless extravaganzas.

To many, his plays seemed boring and plotless but Chekhov chose to hide the real meaning of his plays in plain sight.

What follows, from the writers of The Hangover, is predictable, crass, pointless and plotless.

Fore demonstrates with brio that the so-called "return to order" was not at all a rewinding of the clock, nor a simple return to the classical humanism and anthropocentrism that had been programmatically eschewed by the radical experimentations of the historical avant-gardes (abstraction, readymade, sound poetry, plotless films and theatrical productions, montage, etc).

The production is sponsored by Van Cleef & Arpels, from whose glittering display windows, as the story goes, Balanchine drew inspiration for what is widely considered the first plotless full-length ballet.