Sentence examples for dancer steps from inspiring English sources

A dancer steps forward from a group, taking a tentative position.

In one scene, a male dancer steps off a platform and appears to walk on air.

The brisk, highly charged pointing of a foot and leg; the exultant, bowlike arc of a body stretching as a dancer steps grandly off-balance; the rhythmic thrill of academic steps as they pronounce the music's beat: these are basic ingredients of a heady mix.

During the opening minutes of the show, when each dancer steps forward to stare into an unseen mirror, we all stare back – fascinated by one man's gnarly beak of a nose, another's genially drink-flushed cheeks, by one woman's proudly slender ankles, another's ironic glance.

But on Tuesday the only dancer stepping out from the corps ranks was Justin Peck, who brought a patrician command to the thankless part of the Prince of Verona.

Occasionally, a lone dancer stepped out from the group briefly, as if to breathe a little freer, and then returned to the community.

When Laura Shoop, dressed as an infant who wants to be spanked, and Katrina Rose Dideriksen, the aspiring pole dancer, step into the spotlight to sing about their dreams of being noticed, a lustrous, heartbreaking purity enfolds them.

The dancers came together and dispersed fitfully, often shifting as a result of Springer's entrance; harmony and smooth edges were little in evidence, save for a motif, repeated in the middle of the piece, in which a dancer stepped forward easily in an arabesque and held it exquisitely, solidly.

But the fact that it takes a moment to register Ms. Knudson as a dancer, stepping from public realm to stage, seems emblematic of Ms. Jaroslow's work, which has frequently blurred the lines between art and life in its use of nondancers and its preoccupation with community.

Children can imitate the dancers' steps, provide choreographic suggestions and be co-stars in the grand finale.

Copying the dancers' steps with impressive proficiency, the girl — Sophia, who turned out to be 4 — joined the cast of nearly 30 as the dancers stretched out on their backs.