This concerto, which clocked in at around 72 minutes on Sunday (the program notes estimated that it should take 64 minutes; the timing in the published score is 80) offers a pianist relatively little time to rest, and most of that is in the last of its five expansive movements.
Finally is the idea of extent: for gesture, large, expansive movements could be characteristic of happy or (hot) anger.
I'm interested in a more expansive view [and] interested in more inclusive and expansive movements.
It is the fluid, expansive movement and the skill with which Mr. Munisteri creates and dissembles his spatial patterns that are the real interest of the piece.
The cavernous Irondale Center, with its elegantly weathered walls, should provide a nice setting for Mr. Ford's expansive movement — and for the postshow dance party in his honor.
Hezbollah has evolved from a shadowy organization blamed for two attacks on the American Embassy and the 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks here, killing 240 soldiers, into an expansive movement with an armed militia more powerful than the Lebanese Army and a sprawling infrastructure that delivers welfare to its Shiite constituency, Lebanon's largest community.
Christopher Williams's work often displays extraordinary feats of visual imagination rather than pure dance, but in "Portuguese Suite," set to traditional fado music, he shows how good he is at creating fluid, expansive movement that keeps surprising in its effortless leverages from floor to air, and from one person to another.
In an email to THUMP, Clipson said he was inspired by the piece's "expansive movement, beguiling pace and evocative sound".
Both capture a childlike joy in expansive movement that looks deceptively simple, as if anyone could do it, but underpinning the seemingly carefree, almost improvisatory whirling and hopping are a rigorous technique and split-second timing.
Aiken walks up to the microphone to say her name, starting an echoing audio loop, and begins a series of expansive, leisured movements: outstretched limbs, simple bends, walking, sliding.
I would stand back and direct them to the boxes with an expansive arm movement and a self-satisfied smirk.
