In the unhurried court atmosphere, dance scenes lasted an hour or more, and dance figures might be repeated many times.
Brazilian DJ Kaleb Freitas was performing at the Atmosphere dance music festival in Esteio, Southern Brazil, when high winds from a passing storm toppled the steel stage, according to CBS News.
He says it was then, in the physical atmosphere of dance, that he became aware of his sexuality.
Ashton's "Thaïs," with its veiled ballerina and its sense of erotic visitation, illustrates his powerful gift for theatrical atmosphere and dance sensuousness.
This is a somber movement, quite distinct from the typical atmosphere of dance movements.
Many demonstrators made their way to nearby Cihangir, where they gathered in a semi-party atmosphere with dance music, cheers, and whistles mingling with occasional wafts of tear gas as police chased people down side streets in the area.
Moving to New York at 21 is an exciting but formidable task for a young man, especially when emerging from the four-hour, tub-thumping sessions of the Irish acid rave scene to encounter an altogether smoother atmosphere on dance floors across the Atlantic.
"Indeed," he writes, "the whole meaningless story, with its atmosphere of dance-halls, movie-palaces, cheap perfume, false names and stolen cars, belongs essentially to a war period" - and, as he also points out, "the brutalising effects of war" may have lent extra vehemence to the expressions of outrage that erupted when Jones was imprisoned rather than, like her male accomplice, executed.
But for Ms. Uprichard, its festive atmosphere allows the dance to succeed outdoors too.
Lavish theatrics would provide a more creative atmosphere than thumping dance floors.
The music, featuring plenty of silence, seems to give cues and atmosphere to the dance without establishing any close correspondence of movement and sound.
