"I, too, believe that I heard such a fluttering of wings while I wrote that book.
She could feel it all over her body, a fluttering of pins and needles it almost felt like but she knew it wasn't that.
Fortunately, as well, he also eventually drops or uses it for contrasting effect - a fluttering of hands above bent elbows begun by dancers in single serpentine file acquires a different look when simultaneously done by alternating groups, facing front.
His acts included "Creation," in which the start of the world began with a fluttering of his long fingers as fish and birds, and ended with Adam and Eve skulking out of Eden.
Then there is the matter of his arms, which slowly rise and fall, sometimes with a fluttering of fingers that suggests the music is being summoned from the air or let go.
And the Cherokee solo for Miss Chouteau, choreographed by her husband, Miguel Terekhov, brought a note of reflective sadness to the pas de quatre, with lyrical arms, little, running jumps and a fluttering of the hands that suggested the blinking out of tears.
