Sentence examples for folk choreography from inspiring English sources
With a grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, today's program features Ginga Brasileira Inc., practitioners of Afro-Brazilian art and dance forms including the Samba; and the Khmer Performing Arts Ensemble of Cambodia with a repertory of classic and folk choreography.
Its program includes Amobi performing Airport Music for Black Folks with choreography by multi-disciplinary artist Richard Kennedy, a set from Breadwoman performed by Anna Homler and Jorge Martin, and a score of other artists including Gobby and RAMZi.
Like the score, the choreography takes folk material and transmutes it into something surprisingly new.
Perhaps that is why Neshka Robeva, a ballet-trained dancer turned gymnast who coached Bulgaria's rhythmic gymnastics team, felt compelled to balance the women's gymnastic display with mainly male folk dancing in her choreography.
Svetlana Zakharova is exemplary, shedding occasionally girlish mannerisms to reveal an electric purity of line and, like several of the dancers, showing us details in the choreography - glancing folk references, sylphide bourrées - that are frequently lost in performance.
Twyla Tharp teaches choreography to ordinary folk for a restaging of "The One Hundreds".
Although one sequence had lively steps recalling folk dancing, most of the choreography was grim and heavy-footed.
The technique is rooted in classical ballet, but from the 90s onwards Pederneiras incorporated "Brazilianisms" into his choreography, without mimicking folk or urban styles.
Although Mr. Moiseyev's choreography derived from folk sources, he created his works for professional dancers: as observers noted from the start, no peasants or villagers ever danced with such theatrical flair.
Gennadi Saveliev, a Bolshoi-trained dancer, wowed all with new leg-over-leg leaps more suited to a Russian folk company than to the choreography of Agrippina Vaganova in "Diana and Acteon".
Balanchine's choreography from 1954 absorbs folk motifs in the same way the music absorbs the tunes.
