Elmslie defines the technique -- which can be practiced by a graceful performer as well as by a superficial manipulator -- as "a display of virtuosity that masks how difficult the thing performed is".
It's probably happening somewhere tonight: a chorus is singing, "Spread your wings and prepare to fly, for you have become a butterfly," and a graceful performer in a wig and pantyhose is taking a final bow, batting a pair of oversize eyelashes and fluttering offstage.
There is an elegant intelligence to boxing, graceful performers elevated within the theatre of their dreams.
Its techniques are impressive and various, though its most persuasive special effects are Mr. Dujardin and Ms. Bejo, physically graceful performers with faces the camera cannot resist.
I am much more agile than I used to be, which makes me appear more graceful as a performer".
The performers, whose graceful maneuvers evoke a human kaleidoscope, also fly across the stage like trapeze artists, except there's no trapeze.
Ahmet was graceful and affectionate with this performer — and he did a most skillful thing: he made it clear, through his grace and his warmth, that his interest was personal, and not professional.
He was one of those rare performers who made his masculinity graceful and funny.
Some performers are naturally passionate and graceful, while others are hopelessly wooden and struggle to express the kind of passion and intimacy I'm looking for.
Not to be overlooked are the performers on rings and trapeze, whose graceful postures are enhanced by the lighting of Tad Shannon and the music created and performed by Mike Van Liew, Courtney Von Drehle and Chris Monroe who, with Joan Szymko, constitute the band.
Olga Castro, a small, intense performer, stands out for her articulate hands, graceful upper body and sharp footwork, but the other dancers' affinity for both full-bodied movement and mastery of the castanet was negligible.
