Sentence examples for engaged performance from inspiring English sources

She teaches contemporary political and engaged performance, performance historiography (1500-1850), and performance studies.

The vital and engaged performance of the young orchestra, in fact, was the musical highlight of that evening.

At the other end, however, where there is too little to keep the driver engaged, performance drops as well.

The women's dialogue is pungently ribald but diffuse; too often, shouting and shrieking and gesticulating take the place of engaged performance.

In 1988, he gave a vital, engaged performance in English as Gaev in Peter Brook's production of The Cherry Orchard in New York.

Mr. Schimmel's writing is energetic, inviting and, most crucial for a piece of this kind, picturesque, and these musicians gave it the fully engaged performance it deserved.

As a rule, though, Ms. Makarova elicits far less vitally engaged performances.

The singers — Katrina Thurman, a soprano; Hai-Ting Chinn, a mezzo-soprano; Keith Jameson, a tenor; David Adam Moore, a baritone; and Kevin Burdette, a bass — offered rich, engaged performances.

In his concerts with the Met Chamber Ensemble, James Levine takes musicians from the Met Orchestra about as far as you can get from the opera repertory that occupies them night after night, and the players respond with vigorous, deeply engaged performances.

Those are loud and generally less impressive than Mr. Pearce and especially Mr. Kingsley, who turn in the sort of engaged performances that Mr. Downey no longer gives in the franchise.

A veteran of East Berlin's pioneering Volksbühne, Schlingensief took his anarchic, improvisatory, politically engaged performances everywhere, from the Bayreuth opera festival, where his "Parsifal," featuring a decaying hare, was booed for minutes on end, to Burkina Faso, where, at the time of his death, he was at work on an "opera village," whose construction is still under way.