The work for 26 dancers (all but one a principal) is less a fluid ballet than an assemblage of jagged poses without a riveting structure to anchor the music.
And manufacturers like Ford are already simulating cities where vehicles, buildings, and mass transit are constantly communicating with each other in a fluid ballet that would take the driver out of the equation, abolish traffic, and create seamless, accident-free commutes.
His wild and raw bits on SNL were sometimes gravity-defying, like his fluid, ballet-like dance in the iconic Lunch Lady Land sketch, and just as often used gravity to painfully funny effect, like when he crushed a coffee table during his turn as motivational speaker Matt Foley.
"Meadow" is a fluid, lyrical ballet with exotic ritual overtones, a clever score and, at the very end, a gimmick that may not be needed but is pretty striking nonetheless.
I don't like how its 2D combat should be fluid, a ballet of bloodletting with me, as the vengeance-fuelled Aarbron, a man-turned-beast-who-wants-to-be-a-man-again, as the principal dancer; and yet its exacting mechanics turn what could be a captivating symphony of counters and slashes into a frenzied breakdown of wobbly desperation that's uglier than an undercut.
His dance vocabulary is classical but unfettered by academic strictures; its fluid changes between the ballet lexicon and other kinds of movement are endlessly surprising and innately expressive.
92ND STREET Y HARKNESS DANCE FESTIVAL The series is unusually far-ranging this year, opening with Kota Yamazaki Fluid Hug Hug in ballet-Butoh and closing with the playful, high-energy Brian Brooks Moving Company.
Fluid, attacking soccer requires a ballet of movement in front of the ball, and the dancers need space with which to work.
King's dances employ a hyperextended ballet technique and the fluid upper body of modern dance; his dancers tend to be tall and lean and incredibly flexible.
You see this in the Bruce Museum exhibition in works like "Ballet" (1942), a zany, fluid engraving, and "Grandeur-Immense" (1935), a diagramlike drypoint in which the artist sketches out one of his famous mobiles.
Wamp has been hooping for 10 years and has the fluid-but-strong posture of a ballet dancer.
