Sentence examples for expressive movement from inspiring English sources

Silent cinema, he argued, was an art of expressive movement.

"Us" is as full of expressive movement and brutal physicality as "I Will Bear Witness" is contained and still.

He had pioneered the synthesis of ballet and modern dance, extending the possibilities of expressive movement by highly trained bodies.

In his book, he quotes Paul Klee describing graphic art as "the expressive movement of a hand equipped with a pencil to move it".

In the process "Broken Chords" shows the subtlety with which expressive movement, choreographed by an experienced and inspired artist, can cut to the heart of everyday reality.

But the mode of expressive movement that Duncan discovered would not be named modern dance for years, nor would popular forms like folk dance or jazz be seriously discussed until later in the century.

After a few minutes in their company, you become quite mesmerised by their expressive movements.

To offer this program as a rehabilitation method is fascinating: fully engaging the mind and soul into expressive movements in order to heal from criminal pasts.

Studies of infants show that in the second half of the first year a child will imitate the expressive movements of others for example, raising of the arms, smiling, and attempts at speech.

Alternating between highly stylized, precise gestures — of hands, fingers and faces as well as torsos and limbs — and more flowing and expressive movements, the dancers enact dramas of desire, sexual violence and the passage of time.

With expressive movements of head and hand, she seemed bent on including listeners not only in the lively musical conversation she was having with the harmonium player, but in a centuries-long dialogue between worshiper and godhead.