The rhythm is based on the natural cadence of the text as carefully spoken.
But then there's the text, spoken sporadically throughout.
And so, the hard-to-catch logic of the text spoken by the actors begins to make sense.
The Scherzo leads directly into the first melodrama, a passage of text spoken over music.
"In the theater it's only the text, in language of the 17th century, often spoken very quickly."
The first piece having also text spoken was Keep Calm and Carry On.
It is scored for orchestra and baritone, with some of the text spoken.
The text - spoken by taped voices that seem to issue often from moving lips projected on the dancers' hips - is familiar.
It translates his still works into flickering pictures with texts spoken by different voices.
She described the work as part graphics, part photography, with text written or spoken by the women and children in those camps.