These American Ballet Theater dancers, lacking spontaneity and any semblance of dynamic phrasing, turned a romantic duet into a bland exercise.
Its most satisfying aspect is its dynamic phrasing: Tuckett has primed his cast to anticipate the music by a fraction of a beat, and the choreography fairly hurtles on its course.
She used instruments such as the portable dynamic-phrase synthesizer Korg Kaossilator to compose.
But he still loved what he called Kerouac's "breathless, dynamic bop phrases," and always would.
Mr. Holloway does a lot by doing a little: don't expect the phrase-by-phrase dynamic and tempo reconsiderations of Gidon Kremer's approach.
Simone Messmer, as one of the Two Swans, had the most dynamic and lush phrasing of the night.
His interpretations were notable for detail of phrasing, dynamic intensity, and an essentially classical conception of form.
Anonymous 4's trademark vocal blend, with its sparing use of vibrato and its careful dynamic gradations within phrases, suits this music beautifully.
Monday's dancers paid terrific attention to taxing details of rapid footwork and charming posture while passing casually over matters like line, dynamic contrasts, expressive phrasing.
Still, in phrasing, dynamic shading, precision of ensemble, rhythmic sense and subtlety of verbal nuance the singers obviously -- and rightly -- felt themselves to be in capable hands, hands they could trust.
In a song like Dowland's supremely melancholy "Come, Heavy Sleep" he uses dynamic nuance, thoughtful phrasing and even a judicious touch of vibrato to magnify the emotional pull.
