Sentence examples for dance shapes from inspiring English sources

Cut to December this year, and Balls is now the most loved politician in the country thanks to his eccentric and enthusiastic dance shapes on Strictly Come Dancing.

Madame then makes herself throw up, Louis practises his dance shapes, Fabien coughs up blood and Mauvais Philippe watches one of his fellow conspirators being pulled apart by four horses.

Their grand pas de deux is alternately formal and informal: they show the big, classically perfect dance shapes, arcs, gestures and steps that reveal their ideal qualities, but they also just can't help expressing their own lesser-mortal amazement about this.

Judy Pierson Provence, France Beyond size zero When I trained at the Royal Academy of Dance, I, along with my classmates, was subjected to daily snide remarks about weight, even though none of us could possibly have weighed more than seven stone ('Size zero cast aside as dance shapes up', last week).

The main dance shape remains; the physical basis changes.

Haitian dance shaped her aesthetics and Haitian voudon (voodoo) shaped her spirit.

The gem is an exhilarating love duet, studded with thrusts and parries for Katherine Griffiths and Mr. Turner under an arch of white silk blown into the air: a Chinese ribbon dance shaped by a wind machine.

At its center Andrea Weber holds a characteristic Cunningham balance on one leg: her torso leans forward, her eyes are focused down, and her other leg is raised behind her as the highest point of her dance shape.

Humor, surprise, variety, an analytical response to music, dance shaped as architecture in time and space: these are qualities to be admired in most of the foremost choreographers, dead and alive.

"The rigorous practice of dance shaped me as a thinker," Makhulu says, "both in my attention to detail and my sensitivity to formal relationships.

A superb performance came from Mr. Williams as the man who begins and ends the work - his grasp of the modern-dance shapes combined with ballet line and partnering proved a model of clarity.