You're saying, 'Look at my beautiful gestures.' And now — 'Look at what I'm going to do next!' Balanchine went beyond that presentational image, but he couldn't have done so unless he had loved it once, in her.
"Andy Dandy," from 1973, features a bizarre display of three identical flower paintings being observed by a man accompanied by a bulldog on a leash; "Ferrarese Suggestions" from 1982, offers a view of an imaginary gallery containing paintings by the Metaphysical artist Giorgio de Chirico; and "The Beautiful Gestures," from 1999, presents a vista of a museum, or other exhibition, of modern art.
A thing of beauty may be a joy forever, but a beautiful gesture?
It was a weird little song -- a new number called "Ethel Lou," and a beautiful gesture.
"I thought it was a rather beautiful gesture to give this collection away, benevolent and philanthropic.
"Damage Control" ends with a beautiful gesture of affirmation that I will not ruin by trying to summarize.
She praised Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for raising her son's case in his inaugural conference speech, describing it as a "beautiful gesture".
"It's a beautiful gesture, reminiscent of the beginnings of modern dance, when different choreographers would share a program," Carla Maxwell, the artistic director of the Limón Dance Company, says.
Even those "tricks" from Chalayan legend — the tables turning into dresses, for example — were transformed in the show Friday into a simple and beautiful gesture: a model walking toward the camera in a short, draped dress, and then pulling at the silk at the neck until it flowed over into a long dress.
"I thought it was such a beautiful gesture," said Ms. Blanchett, referring to the subtle way that an obi belt was inserted into a slim dress, the curved back of a coat offered the suggestion of a kimono and cherry blossom pink broke into patterns like Japanese drawings.
It should have been like that every year, and some fans, with a straight face, will claim that it is, pointing to the bliss that was 1988, when Switzerland — in a beautiful gesture toward global, rather than merely European, harmony — took a song co-written by a Turk and gave it to a French-Canadian wearing an unusual combination of double-breasted white jacket and matching puffball skirt.
