In many photographs the interest is in the model's visible effort to hold an exaggerated pose or expression of happiness, sadness, astonishment, bemusement, fear or sympathy.
Six dancers — the men in tight shorts, the women in bras and shorts, all in a palette of golds, browns, and oranges — moved methodically from pose to exaggerated pose, until a woman, attempting to get through a series of balletic steps, was continually interrupted by one of the men, who bothered her by putting his hands all over her body.
As a director, Mr. Miller has been campaigning to rid opera of acting, or at least the exaggerated posing and gesticulating that, as he has put it, pass for acting in opera.
The excerpt was illustrated with photos of the Broadway cast of "Godspell" twisted into exaggerated poses.
The AES+F prints were a burlesque of fashion photography, crowded with absurdly dressed models twisted into exaggerated poses of domination and servitude.
Gradually Mr. Jones refined his style, using exaggerated poses to communicate characters' thoughts, a faster pace, razor-sharp timing and cutting and stylized designs influenced by modern art.
The man-child from the Dominican Republic, who immigrated with a grandmother named "America," recites Bible verses and strikes exaggerated poses after his home runs.
But after Xiao Yu is beaten a second time, she, too, seems transformed and assumes the stance of a martial-arts warrior, striking exaggerated poses with a raised knife amid the now-Expressionistic light and shadow.
Like the first movie this one revs up with several self-reflexive storytelling devices, including a gaudy, mildly amusing opener in which the main characters enter, striking representative if teasingly exaggerated poses, their names splashed on the screen.
Jones's own style emerged in the late 1940s and featured pared-down design, precision timing, and highly exaggerated poses and facial expressions, all of which served to explore the psychological depths of the characters.
The evening began with "Flight Distance III: Chain Suite," which paired Ms. Simoneau with Kristin Taylor in a duet that started with the dancers freezing in exaggerated poses — a lunge twisted so that a leg jutted to the side or the hips thrust forward with a deeply arched spine.
