Sentence examples for described dance from inspiring English sources

Such fulsome praise inevitably recalls the anonymous wag who described "Dance" as "Proust translated by Wodehouse".

It is, fundamentally, Gebrauchsmusik — "utility music," as Paul Nettl, the Bohemian musicologist, described dance music, in 1921.

Amid quotations from Elizabeth Bishop's poem "One Art" and Depeche Mode lyrics, the note described dance as a defense against loss, "an attempt to hold time".

The title of the album came from a 1937 quote by Curt Sachs (printed on the back of the album sleeve) in which he described dance as "the victory over gravity".

ROBERTS -- In your forthcoming book, "The Creative Habit" [Simon & Schuster], you describe dance as being preverbal.

Working in Paris, he collaborated with André Lorin, conductor of the Royal Academy of Dance; he also wrote Recueil de danses (1704; "Collection of Dances"), describing dances performed at the Paris Opéra.

" 'Apoplexy' is a group piece," he said, describing dances to be performed either at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, at McCarter Theater, or both.

"Namouna" is a long series of divertissements, a word used in ballet to describe danced interludes within a larger story or the suite of dances that often conclude 19th-century productions.

And she describes dances for male and female rites of passage, full-moon dances of courtship, dances of male strength, working line-dances for men, dances for older men, hunting dances, all-female dances and Saturday-night dances before the Sunday wedding.

Turner describes "Dancing Shoes" as being about "people always looking to pull when they go out however much they mask it".

As described, this dance model offers a compact representation of the dance movement in relation to the musical meter, being at the same time able to describe the dance according to different levels of the musical meter (different temporal resolutions), and flexible to convey variability of the gestures in space.