Sentence examples for daring performances from inspiring English sources

The program, which included daring performances of George Balanchine's "Agon" and Jerome Robbins's "West Side Story Suite," opened with Mr. Boal in an excerpt from Balanchine's "Apollo" and closed with Robbins's "Opus 19/The Dreamer".

These seemingly daring performances came at the end of a long wave of gender-bending films.

But whether it's Alex speaking in drag at prestigious conferences, Sudipto pushing gender boundaries with daring performances, or Harish going further still to point out self-hatred within the LGBTQ community, drag may be an art form whose time in India has come.

The concert ended with a daring performance of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring".

Rylance's deep and daring performance, which he premièred in London, in 2009, defies the tropes of critical language.

She gave an extremely daring performance and walked a very fine line as she knew it could have been ridiculous.

The soprano Lauren Flanigan, true to form, gives a vocally earthy and dramatically daring performance as Lady Macbeth.

For technique used to the physical extreme, there is Yelena Kuzmina's thrilling and daring performance as the composer's wife-gone-mad.

In 2003 he topped Rolling Stone's list of all-time great guitarists and the "freak flag" iconography surrounding him — his wild hair, wilder clothing and daring performance antics — have made him an enduring symbol of personal freedom.

Nelson George, a sharp writer on race and music and much else, calls out Jagger at the T.A.M.I. show for his "lame funky chicken," in contrast to Brown's "proto-moon-walking, athletically daring performance".

Elisha Otis's daring performance barely garners a footnote in the newspapers of 1853, and the heroic and now "official" illustration of the performance was in fact drawn in 1978.