For instance, Yemanya (whose name has several variant spellings) is the orisha of the ocean; when a female dancer experiences possession, she may lift her skirts and move them in a way that suggests the swells of an ocean wave.
A 17-year-old ballet dancer experienced LBP which prolonged for several months and was exacerbated by extension of the lumbar spine.
McCully's expressive pen-and-ink and watercolor pictures capture the full range of young-dancer experience: the scrupulous repetition of classroom exercises, the hope and fear of auditions, the anxiety and anticipation of waiting for a cast list to be posted and, on performance day, the bliss of stepping out into the lights.
Meanwhile, Ms. Copen is thinking of the dancers' experience in a different light.
There are other scenes in which the dancers experience breakdowns of sorts, and their squeals and hysterical shrieks fall into the category of modern-dance clichés.
'Black Swan' (15) is out on 21 January Breaking pointe: The perils of a life at the barre Whatever the fictions in Aronofsky's film, he got at least one thing right: dancers experience pain.
"That has been a lot of the minority dancers' experience.
Thomas' goal was to provide a comprehensive education to hip-hop dancers that was comparable to what ballet, modern, and jazz dancers experience at their respective institutions.
It's a similar rush dancers experience every night before they step on stage, and it's how I feel when I enter the studio for the first time to create a piece.
This early version responds to her dancers' experiences rehearsing at the community center and the varied population they've encountered there.
Ms. Bausch said she was also inspired by her work with Chandralekha, a famous Indian dancer who died in 2006, and her dancers' experiences while in India.
