Sentence examples for an angled body from inspiring English sources

The Bizet score is all joyful sophistication, as is Balanchine's inventive riff on the effacé - an angled body position in classical ballet that derives originally from the vocabulary of fencing.

It is a private dance, beginning with an image of a broken-angled body huddled into itself inside a rectangle of dim light.

Limbs are awkwardly angled, body parts are always restless.

Throughout the piece, the dancers mostly face the audience squarely -- as opposed to the angled body facings that predominate in classical ballet -- with expressions on their faces that range from blank, to tense, to quietly terrified.

But some details of the angled bodies, intricate partnering and witty syncopated footwork were apparent in this staging by Jill Johnson, a former Forsythe dancer.

The shoulder buttons switch between fire and ice powers – the hot stuff melts blocks in the opening Glacier Forest stage, while glowing a silvery white means that magically right-angled bodies of water will instantly freeze when you touch them.

Megumi Eda slips through "Time" like a distant, hauntingly sad melodic phrase, her body bent often into an angled, calligraphic shape.

In one, shifting proletarian masses surge about the stage with the slightly robotic quality seen in much of Eifman's group choreography and with the sharp-angled bodies frequently seen in his pas de deux.

And the only correspondence between Mr. Barr's video and Ms. Gerring's movement seemed to be that both depicted broken-angled bodies, languid and mysterious on the video and propulsive on the stage.

Alexander [ 9] determined the critical speed to be at a Froude number of 1, a prediction later modified by Usherwood [ 4] under consideration that take-off conditions are most limiting at the extremes of leg angle (early and late stance) owing to the combination of increased centripetal force requirements (as the body moves faster) and a reduced weight component along an angled leg.

"There's pressure to have an angled face," Boos said.