In a Neo-Classical gesture, Mr. Harbison surrounds the singer with a concertino sub-group of six players: three flutes, vibraphone, harp and celesta.
In its modernization of classical Asian gestures, his work is more suavely stylish than philosophically or spiritually illuminating.
Linda Seifert, a dancer, shaped her interpretation with a fluid combination of pop moves and classical ballet gestures.
In my mind, I could see into the library, see those shelves and shelves of eloquent, mute books, sunk in themselves like a rotting paper harvest, the ancient, classical authors gesturing in puzzlement to the classical New World place-names of New York State Romee, Troy, Ithaca, Syracuse.
Mr. Jacobsen and Mr. Cords played with animated spirit in Mr. Bolcom's "Session II," a puckish 1966 distortion of Classical-era gestures.
Elke Rindfleisch sets out to unveil the layers that construct our identities in "Enamoured," whose movement vocabulary combines classical dance, theatrical gesture and the physiotherapeutic release technique.
The leader, Sophiline Cheam Shapiro, is an innovator who has extended the realm of Cambodian ballet, melding classical steps and gestures — curled-back fingers, bent legs, and hyperextended arms.
Ms. Mukherjee chose Mizuto Abura, too, partly because of her curiosity about its use of mime and the differences and similarities to the expressive or narrative aspect of classical Indian dance gestures.
As aggressive orchestral passages rub up against what could be soundtracks for comic books or sci-fi movies, the dancers shift among a wide movement palette: clean, vectorlike traveling phrases that mix ballet and classical modern, campy gestures, hints of mime, even moments of what appears to be Irish step dancing.
Just as the composers and ensembles that ply the indie path in new music combine structures and language from contemporary classical styles with gestures and timbres from pop and world music, L'Arpeggiata has lately been hopping through cultures and across centuries.
When things became too groovy, he reverted to classical or semiclassical gestures; even when playing his own melodies, he would consciously land on a note a half-step away from the right one, to throw a dissonant twinge into the music.
