Sentence examples for closing dance from inspiring English sources

And though the singer Sting is not likely to be present, the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater will perform three ballets set to his music as the closing dance event.

The closing dance of "Emeralds" starts with a beautiful fanlike tableau that melts as the 10 women of the corps de ballet slowly pace back, back, back — they seem to be reluctantly withdrawing from a spell — before leaving the stage for the 7 lead dancers.

Despite his famous shyness, he brought over a dozen fans up on the stage for a closing dance party, interacting with them as if they were old friends, dancing with one chubby middle-aged lady as enthusiastically as if she was one of his backup dancers.

He works in a modern-dance idiom colored by the traditional dancing of his native Philippines, represented in "Tinig Ng Lupa," the evening's closing dance.

That closing dance expressed concord, delight, the measured order of things.

Leslie Browne's triumphant new "Brahms Trio" would have made a perfect closing dance.

The recently closed Dance Tunnel and its sister venue Dalston Superstore performed the same function in E8, while Peckham's Bussey Building is the fulcrum of a newly buzzing scene in south-east London.

But on the Bass Pod stage, there was even better rough-and-tumble for much of the day: a breakneck set of drum-and-bass from Ed Rush & Optical; a whipsaw start-and-stop-and-skid-and-crash set of dubstep laced with hip-hop from 12th Planet; and a thrashing, crunching, metal-tinged dubstep set from Figure (despite a closing dance-music cliché — a Nirvana song to signify rock fervor).

It was back to choreographically bland business, however, with the closing dances for an endlessly cruel Othello and his Desdemona, danced by Joseph Cipolla and Victoria Marr, and a generic Romeo and Juliet, played by Tiit Helimets and Leticia Muller.

After closing the dance troupe she joined American Ballet Theater, where she was an artistic associate until 1992.

"This has been the most incredible, exciting night of my life," said Stephen, 17, of Ridgefield, Conn., from backstage at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University on Monday, still sweaty after performing a show-closing dance routine for a crowd of more than 800 theater enthusiasts.