Sentence examples for amusing dance from inspiring English sources

Two musicians took part in a vaguely amusing dance lesson, but for the rest, the dancers were a distraction.

"They had enormous energy as they jumped up and down like human pogo sticks or threw themselves in amusing dance steps that allowed their collar-length hair to flap like wings," the review stated.

"Jodi Breakers" is, in the end, pretty standard fare, though it's enlivened by a couple of amusing dance numbers, including one in which Ms. Basu is her own scantily clad item girl.

The soundtrack includes fragments of the Carpenters' "Top of the World"; "Tomorrow"; "The Greatest Love of All"; "You've Got a Friend"; "Hello"; and even the Beastie Boys' "Sure Shot" (for an amusing dance sequence), all dropped with varying degrees of tongue-in-cheek.

Just as their work does, her role in "Well" serves as a gentle reminder of how much humor and grace — and how much entertainment — there is in everyday behavior that often passes us by unacknowledged: the oddly engaging conversation you overhear on a bus; the amusing dance between two strangers whose efforts to courteously avoid a collision serve instead to ensure one.

Wilson jumps into marriage with a socially prominent young woman (Angelina Jolie), only to leave her for six years of service in London and postwar Berlin, where he works with a British agent (Billy Crudup) modelled on Kim Philby a man of immense charm who turns espionage into an amusing dance of treachery.

Both Walker and Santigold are shot pulling puppet strings, manipulating their limbs to make amusing, undulating dance moves.

The Gateway production, under the direction of Carlos L. Encinias, is mildly amusing, energetically danced and intermittently buoyant.

It's an amusing piece of dance-theater, full of satirical wit, and, best of all, it features two splendid performers: Ms. Noël, who is from Haiti and now lives in Mali, and Ms. Xaba, a South African.

The music was framed in texts — among them, historical documents from 15th-century Spain (most notably the Edict of Expulsion); an amusing set of observations about dance by an Italian dancing master, Guglielmo the Jew; and Bertram Gross's fascinating speculative fantasy about Shakespeare's having secretly been Jewish — in readings by John Genke.

Played by the fabulously poignant Thomas Walker, Platée's gullibility was more pathetic than amusing, particularly when juxtaposed with dance sequences that captured the exhausted, drugged but desperately partying atmosphere of staying far too late at a club night.