…Dallas based Doolin's "Backyard Ballet" is the most deceptively intelligent piece in the show. It consists of a one-minute, static camera shot of a bundle of leaves dangling at the end of a spider's web, swinging about randomly, until a dog comes into the frame to disrupt its motion- It plays on a continuous loop, but every time it restarts, a different piece of music comes on-15 various songs in all. One comes from an opera, another a waltz, another a blues tune, another a folk-country hoe- down, each a different style. But with every change in music, the tone of the "dancing" leaves changes- As the opera music plays, you feel as though the leaves' dance is sad and woeful. As the blues number sounds, the dance becomes a bit bawdy- And as the fiddle flies during the country jam, you half expect the leaves to take a swig from a jug of moonshine- Like Russian montage experiments in the 1920s, Doolin elicits different emotional responses from an image-a rather silly image-simply by changing one element of the cinematic signal- It's as clever and potent a demonstration of the culturally created associations of music as any post-structural film theory tome-and it calls its dog "Zorro, the dance critic" to boot…