When Emily Kikta, a towering demi-soloist, came out of nowhere in "That Certain Feeling," devouring space opposite Ask la Cour, it was a question of who's that girl?
The sheer performing chutzpah of Ms. Osipova and Mr. Vasiliev was astonishing — Mr. Vasiliev roars through a solo, devouring space beyond all proportion to his frame — but their "Flames of Paris" pas de deux came after we'd been in the theater for two and a half hours and had looked at more than enough recyclings of the same few ballet tricks.
The reference is significant: as entities, these slim animals are at once refined and fidgety, highly flexible and, of course, able to devour space at great speed.
And when it came to the coda, she devoured space in a circuit of turns with a glamorous power I have not seen since Maria Calegari 26 years before.
The dancers devour the space on stage, share body weight, pull apart and then come together in moments of conflict or tenderness.
She wanted to devour public space, to display her strength and muscularity, to eat up the opportunities to race and compete.
Bath's backs had been carrying all before them, only to be stopped at source as Saracens devoured the space in front of them.
All six sculptures at Gagosian were enormous: leaning walls of two-inch-thick industrial steel plate; two forty-ton rectangular solids that devoured the space of two rooms; a strange, exquisitely calibrated monolith that looked like a great ship listing dangerously to one side.
A quartet of strong performers devoured the space in the small theater, whose far end was blocked by a plywood wall, painted gray with skeins and bursts of colors (by Anna Schuleit) to resemble something like the Abstract Expressionist paintings Guggenheim collected.
More than 125 million Americans suffer from intermittent unhealthy air, 270,000 miles of rivers and streams remain too polluted for fishing and swimming, coastal estuaries are in generally poor shape, and suburban sprawl continues to devour open space at an alarming rate.
Mostly they cross the street after "The Oprah Winfrey Show" is finished taping and buzz about the feel-good space, devouring all things Oprah, from tea sets to T-shirts, most emblazoned with some form of her signature "O".
