At the beginning of each show, Squirtz and her fellow performers -- Chris of Hur, Tyler Ashley, Boy Georgia and Annie Witch-Way -- enact a dance-heavy "ritual" that ties into the theme of that month's show, giving the vibe of the room an ethereal, other-worldly quality.
The pair enacts a dance in which both partners droop their wings prior to mating.
The film seems to play out in textures and tonalities rather than in actions and words, as a grease-stained ship's stoker (George Bancroft), associated with dark, shiny surfaces, and a prostitute (Betty Compson, spun out of white linen and light) enact a strange, private dance of generosity and betrayal, hope and despair, trust and cynicism.
Portraying a stepmother and stepson doomed to enact a feverish, erotic dance that will ultimately destroy them, Carla Gugino and Pablo Schreiber fight like tigers in a cage over a legacy of land, even as their bodies cleave violently together, aflame with urgent need.
The murderer enacts a freak dance with the corpse and then vanishes.
Elsewhere they are elves or gnomes, most disturbingly in "Encounter," where an interlocking pattern of skulking white and black men (the latter with beaks that are a design solution, but nasty nonetheless) breaks apart and the figures circle in opposite directions, as if enacting a ritual dance.
Far up a dirt road in a remote Rocky Mountain valley, two Tibetan Buddhist monks in multicolored robes dipped and twirled, enacting an ancient dance describing their homeland's sacred history.
Dancing, while it might occasionally be pure dance without meaning, more often was used to enact a story in the theatre.
We see her dance but know nothing of her fantasies; see her enact a plot but know nothing of her past.
"Arms," from 1984, became a signature dance for Marshall; in it, two people, standing side by side, enact a relationship — its conflicts and resolutions, its pain and hope — in six minutes.
