She's a singer who hits every vocal nuance, whether serious or satiric; a high-energy dancer who could probably double as a contortionist; a comic who draws roars from pratfalls, subtle glances, punchlines and sensuality.
Donald Byrd and his high-energy dancers, The Group, in choreography that is filled with intelligence and daring.
That song used the surf-rock beat, a sped-up cousin of the Afro-Cuban habanera; it had a nearly constant vocal chorus with high-pitched harmonies (Brian Wilson sang in a falsetto, like Eddie Perez, the saxophonist and background singer in El Gran Combo); it used hard breaks and dropouts to drive up the energy of dancers.
People imagine it's so easy to be a Chippendales-type, high-energy exotic dancer.
AILEY II (Sunday) The high-energy young dancers of the "second" company of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater offer works by Igal Perry, Robert Battle and Ailey.
During the 1950s, the success of "American Bandstand" spawned a craze for live dance shows — simple, locally produced affairs, filled with high-energy volunteer dancers, musicians and D.J.'s.
(La Rocco) PARSONS DANCE (Tuesday through Thursday) Members of the East Village Opera Company join Parsons onstage for a collaborative premiere, and it's anybody's guess who will be more high-energy, the dancers or the vocalists.
To see this kind of fresh energy in a dancer who looks entirely Apollonian is heady stuff.
Philip, a short, baby-faced white man with cropped hair, is all pugnacious energy: a born dancer of his own mongrel choreography, powered here by a relentless techno beat, he fuses hip-hop, martial arts and inchoate rapid-fire semaphore with other speedy gestures and occasionally slows to deliver flowing, languid moves.
"The energy of the dancers on the floor is wildly exciting.
Although the experiments were not totally successful, the program held the attention, thanks to the dancers' energy.
