Her prosthetics have included beautiful limbs that look as though they are made from porcelain and painted with flowers, through to futuristic-looking legs and ones fitted with speakers or lights.
Yet it still seems incredible that Life in Progress is to be the last show of her career – with her flukily beautiful limbs and transparently expressive technique, Guillem at 50 can still dance almost anyone else off the stage.
Holding these long, beautiful limbs so close, so tight to your sides?
For Stanley Lombardo, whose "Sappho: Poems and Fragments" (2002) offers a selection of about a quarter of the fragments, the truncated remains are like "beautiful, isolated limbs".
Others are divided in their nature, with beautiful lifelike limbs and anguished faces bursting from pillars of stone, raw as it came out of the mountain.
Are we Usain Bolts, beautiful athletes with wending limbs and taut muscles, bodies as brands, bodies as machines built to go short distances at immense speed, bodies sponsored for millions of pounds and insured for millions more?
To feel the wind in my face, my heart pounding and my limbs moving in beautiful synchronicity with each other.
At Suryalila, in the Andalucian countryside, you'll be able to stretch those limbs surrounded by beautiful mountains, lakes and fields, and feast on organic vegetarian meals in between twice daily yoga classes.
Like Isis, whom we saw piecing together the body of Osiris, or like the sad friends of Truth picking up the torn limbs of that beautiful virgin, we are left to cull out and sort asunder the confused seeds of good and evil.
The first is of a former girlfriend of Patrick Melrose; she occupies, in all, no more than three pages: With her curling blond hair and her slender limbs and her beautiful clothes, Inez was alluring in an obvious way, and yet it was easy enough to see that her slightly protruding blue eyes were blank screens of self-love on which a small selection of fake emotions was allowed to flicker.
PopMatters wrote: "The King of Limbs is a beautiful record, one that begs more of a conscious listen than its predecessor, but one that provides equal – if different – thrills in doing so".
