They danced playfully together.
But there they were, two newlyweds playfully dancing, the stars of an elaborate party featuring chicken and vegetarian potpies, reflecting Mr. Banta's no-option-unconsidered attention to detail.
On Facebook, his daughters and a niece posted a video of him playfully dancing at a family function to the Chris Brown/Usher slow jam, "New Flame".
Ramirez playfully danced alone in the outfield.
Projected onto a scrim, the black-and-white film depicts a towering Ms. Childs dancing across a white grid, sometimes playfully and sometimes with a spare, virginal intensity.
A purer abstraction occurs in Jean Arp's "Star" (1939), a playfully five-pointed twinkler dancing on a cylindrical base, made more ethereal by the roundish hole in its middle, used in a manner similar to that of the Léger piece.
But awe is different than "Awesome!" While the placid youngsters zip around Patricia Ruel's set — an undulating Frank Gehry-like design backed by a wall of digital effects — strut playfully and strike break-dancing poses, they don't remind me of children so much as robots trained to be children.
But he would keep the others waiting so that he could speak more playfully to me, his blue eyes dancing, his tiny gray mustache twitching, his big soft hands squeezing my arm or stroking my fingers or thigh or even massaging my shoulders.
Then, he was dancing again, only the clarinets were pushing forward, almost playfully, and he bent so far back that the top of his head brushed the ground.
As they playfully kick water on one another, their dancing is almost as much fun as watching Gene Kelly kicking up raindrops in "Singin' in the Rain". This is the kind of easygoing musical they don't write anymore, complete with a rotund villain (Ric Stoneback) who's straight out of vaudeville.
The two rivals proceed to duke it out (via Twitter) playfully insulting each other's devices amenities before dancing it out, glowing screens in hand.
