Sentence examples for dance adaptation from inspiring English sources

Watson's amazing performance is the heart of Arthur Pita's stylish new dance adaptation of Kafka's surreal story.

Edward Scissorhands Matthew Bourne's dance adaptation of the Tim Burton movie is as idiosyncratically poetic as his settings of ballet classics.

But that's kids' stuff compared with The Winter's Tale, Wheeldon's dance adaptation of Shakespeare's "problem play", half Othello-like tragedy, half rom-com, premiered by the Royal Ballet in March.

Over at Sadler's Wells, a creature with a pure heart and freakish appearance is scaring the cookie-cutter suburbanites of Matthew Bourne's visually alluring dance adaptation of the film "Edward Scissorhands".

She also knew that she wanted the input of Nancy Meckler – formerly joint director of the theatre group Shared Experience – with whom she had previously, and very successfully, collaborated on a dance adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire.

Right now, Costello remains the ultimate Rennaissance man of pop: he is currently artist in residence at UCLA, has just written his first orchestral score for a dance adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and is working on a film project with American writer and director Neil LaBute.

Mr. Ratmansky said that in addition to watching film versions of "The Tempest," he had looked at paintings and drawings of scenes from the play, and seen several dance adaptations.

The operatic and dance adaptations do not mention of the foreboding dreams the young lovers have of their doom; nor do they contain the riveting scene in which -- after he has ordered Juliet to marry Paris -- Lord Capulet Dan Hiattt) denounces his daughter for her shocking disobedience.

This is the uncut version of the ballet, with prologue and apotheosis, which I far prefer to the pure-dance adaptation performed by most companies today.

Now, to break in the new year, this award-winning director-choreographer and his Pick Up Performance Company have gone much farther back in time with "Aristophanes in Birdonia," a theater-dance adaptation of the ancient Greek play "The Birds".

Yet others saw cause for celebration in the multiracial production of "Yiimimangaliso: The Mysteries," a song-and-dance adaptation of the biblical stories as told in medieval England by the Chester Mystery Plays.