Sentence examples for expressive choreography from inspiring English sources

But the most expressive choreography was reserved for the lead actors, including Ms. Knightley and Mr. Taylor-Johnson, who perform intricate phrases throughout.

Angelin Preljocaj's "Songe de Medée" — no less idiotic, with Medea daubing herself flamboyantly and lingeringly in her children's blood — is quite as devoid of interesting or expressive choreography.

It's all executed with such elegance and warmth: the expressive choreography, the pigtails and glasses, the brother's look, the teetering vase, one of Elton John's most moving songs; and the charming Tiny Dancer herself.

It is a shame — for the sake of all ballerinas — that this production gives its heroine nothing to do in Act IV but be passive: if Kevin McKenzie were less interested in scenic spectacle and more in expressive choreography, he would give his female artists the chance to make the double role of Odette-Odile a great arc.

All of this is conveyed by means of Murfi's confessional commentary – when the piece opens we see him tethered by the neck to a rock, wearing only stained underpants and bleating like a goat – and by Keegan-Dolan's wild and expressive choreography, which is impelled by the skirl of an onstage fiddle band.

However, as tattoos become less and less taboo outside of the dance world, more and more dancers, from the Bangarra Dance Theatre to ballet icons like Sergei Polunin, are choosing to adorn their body with art that is as expressive as choreography. .

Nobody there seemed to point out that the terrible expressive limitations of the choreography were not redeemed by such important subject matter but made all the more flagrant.

On Wednesday night they had both improved, but not enough to give full value to the expressive layers of the choreography.

A defender of expressive dramatic content in choreography, Mr. Moiseyev reiterated the dominant Soviet aesthetics of the cold war period when he deplored abstraction in ballet.

The choreography makes expressive use of bamboo shoulder poles used throughout Asia to carry loads, and in various scenes they come to symbolize burdens, oracle sticks and building materials.

Wayne McGregor's "Genus," seen as a work in progress, is at first appealing in the sheer novelty of its mechanical contortionism; but the more numerous the hyperextended, acrobatic and sensationalist moves thrown into the mix by Mr. McGregor, the more striking becomes the sense of his expressive aridity: this is choreography as clever stunts.