The elemental first movement, the mournful Adagio, the weighty scherzo and the elusive finale all emerged as parts of an overall architectonic conception of the work.
The thickest textures came in the second movement, "Elemental Things," and even here, where movement slowed to the measured pace of a large beast waking up, long-held notes were brought into focus by details: the whisper of a brushed cymbal, the punctuation of piano.
He had gotten involved in dance at Wesleyan University, as a natural offshoot of his work in film and theater; those were the days when theater innovators were rediscovering the elemental power of movement.
In addition, elemental parameters of movement, particularly direction, are typically encoded in premotor areas, such as the PMd, well in advance of the movement itself and before the appearance of activity in M1 [44], [44].
Jehan, who half-jokingly calls herself a Hindu-Pagan-Zen-Buddhist, said all of her movements were elemental, originating from natural phenomena.
Since we seem to be in a universe where the fossil record appears to explain our evolution, it is much more likely that we and our brains did not come about by random movements of elemental particles, but by a process of evolution.
He knows how to crash a truck, and also how to build tension out of elemental situations and economical camera movements.
Bartok's "Out of Doors," a 15-minute suite in five movements, explores the elemental side of nature, complete with pungently modern evocations of Hungarian peasant drums and pipes, and modal folk tunes played in eerie octaves.
Much of the actual movement material is generated from watching Ms. Eyal improvise in the studio and distilling her movements to their most elemental parts, Mr. Letheren said.
They are the movements of the four elemental bodies: fire, air, water and earth.
