Dorrance's choreography, Seibert writes, widens the territory, laying bare "emotions hidden in the mechanics of tap technique, revealing how swiveling ankles reveal tender parts".
"A lot of people have been making pop music for themselves," agrees Gwenno Saunders of the Pipettes, "but for all those bands that talk about the bare emotions of real life you need bands that have a sense of escapism". Image plays a big role for the Pipettes - Saunders even refers to her polka-dotted stage clothes as her uniform.
The effort, the altitude, the agonising achievement, it can all strip back the boundaries of your personality, lay bare emotions, inhibitions, expose the hurt, bring out the joy, and, like the stunning vistas of the French Pyrenees, bring everything into stark relief.
It gets people to the barest emotion".
And so it ended up with Bubba Watson, the man of a million laid-bare emotions, a homemade swing, a pink driver and a hobby restoring a car made famous by "The Dukes of Hazzard," crafting the craziest of shots out of the woods in the playoff, then watering the 10th green with tears.
For Blue Songs, the band's influences were myriad, from the "bare bones emotion" of Sinéad O'Connor to the industrial electronic funk of Meat Beat Manifesto, but one thing remained consistent.
They come to her for 'solace, a place to bare their emotions.
These are men who have laid bare their emotions in song; even when their lyrics are cryptic, their unique voices have exposed their feelings.
Sharon Estacio's "Sheathe," which attempts to strip bare hidden emotions, is composed of phrases inspired by the energy of traditional Philippine dance.
Seeing this in a program with the same steps, executed in a traditional manner in a traditional context, clarifies Ms. Dorrance's unusual talent of laying bare hidden emotions in the technique of tap.
Written by Deborah Salem Smith, Trinity's current playwright-in-residence, and directed by Ms. Smith and Tyler Dobrowsky, the company's associate artistic director, the lucid, deeply nuanced and fearless work pulls no punches as it lays bare the emotions of two families — the patient's and the doctor's — in the wake of an unexpected death during routine surgery.
