Sentence examples for academic dances from inspiring English sources

In this, ballet incorporated mime as well as academic dances, giving expression to the dance by narrative and histrionic context.

But it explores the academic dance idiom in depth.

She said she wanted a school with strong academic, dance and communications programs.

Sexy, loud, grinding, and aggressive, these works adamantly reject everything we associate with academic dance: symmetry, courtliness, poise.

For all its vernacular colorization, Robbins's use of academic dance technique is hardly known for its awkwardness.

In his twenties, he made a series of ballets that challenged academic dance as Picasso, around the same time, was challenging painting.

In a period of women's emancipation, women stepped to the front as propagandists for the new dance and toppled the conventions of the academic dance.

Don't kick it!" Later, the four boys come forward, stand in fifth position and begin a difficult academic dance: brisk beats; quick, precise turns.

Even though it contains not one academic dance step, I often think of this 1975 creation as the dance of all dances; and I'm almost embarrassed by the range of reactions it prompts in me: gasps, laughs, sobs.

Martini, whose real name is Linda Marraccini, came to the profession from an academic dance program, at the State University of New York at Purchase, but today's burlesque queens arrive from everywhere: dance troupes, the theatre, the circus, strip joints.

The scene starts with the Nutcracker triumphant but as yet unredeemed, and his academic dance gesture — tendu side, with arms open wide — is among the strangest in dance theater because its formal radiance clashes with his large, immobile head.