Sentence examples for formidable dancer from inspiring English sources

Washington is a captivating performer, a formidable dancer who is also capable of carefully modulated expressions.

She is not only a formidable dancer but also a consummate professional: not for her the grime of the tavern, Baras is more at home in classy costumes and expert stagings.

Julia Burrer dances a lament, her long arms poignantly and powerfully enshrouding and unwrapping her movements, her dark sweater flowing around her. Burrer is a formidable dancer: she has complete command of her tall and lean body, an ability to attack or surrender in just the right places, in just the right amounts.

Although his reputation as a formidable dancer helped launch his career as a choreographer -- he holds a 1995 Bessie (New York Dance and Performance Award) and the 1996 Dancer of the Year prize in Caracas -- he has been in no hurry to create big works.

And we have to recognise that what makes LCDS, Laban and NSCD so valuable is that they see their remit not simply in terms of training the "best" performers in the world, or honing the most beautiful bodies – although I've seen many formidable dancers come out of those institutions, including Khan himself.

Rocío Molina: Bosque Ardora Acknowledged as one of the most formidable flamenco dancers of her generation, Rocío Molina is a performer of lavish technique, magnetic stage charisma and an exceptional command of rhythm.

A fat, old woman who suddenly drums her heels, thrusts her hands up and sits back down might get a standing ovation over a formidable, gifted young dancer because she nailed it.

How wonderful that we have had, in New York, this formidable artist, the greatest ballet dancer (at least in the male division) of the seventies and eighties, and that he met Mark Morris, the greatest new choreographer of the eighties onward.

There's Madonna, as a young dancer, encountering the formidable Martha Graham in a corridor and being too afraid to speak – then, 10 years later, writing the cheque that saves the Martha Graham Dance School from bankruptcy: "When Martha Graham, now aged ninety-four, is presented with the cheque, she bursts into tears".

For those who manage to hook, hang upside down and swing successfully, it all leads up to the grand finale: the moment when Randy Winner, a former dancer with a formidable grip, hangs upside down opposite you on his own trapeze to catch you in the air as you, also upside down, arch and swing toward him.

Over in the flamenco crucible of the Triana neighbourhood, those in the know queue up at midnight outside the unmarked Bar Anselma (Calle Pagés del Corro 49; 954-21-28-89) to be ushered into the beautifully tiled interior by the formidable Anselma, a notable flamenco dancer who acts as both ringmaster and bouncer.