The unrestrained, weighted unison movement, assembled in an array of Busby Berkeley patterns as a kind of folk dance for the future, takes your breath away.
The piece was created around a series of formal limitations: no unison movement, no improvisation in the process ("something that would have been very easy for us"), music that was strictly atmospheric – and the freedom to break all of these rules if it was justified.
They move sometimes in unison, sometimes in movements from academic ballet, sometimes lying on the floor at an angle that evokes foreshortening in art, so that at moments almost all that can be seen are their feet or parted thighs.
After a fourth class, their voices were beginning to boom in unison and their movements were quick and coordinated.
Under the direction of Lisa Peterson, the acting in Ramirez's drama is almost flawless, and delightfully original; one moment the actors are wonderfully relaxed and bickering in the most natural way, and the next it's as if they were cogs in a machine, brushing their teeth, eating, and working in unison, all their movements highly choreographed.
She does not underestimate the simple and persuasive power of movement in unison.
In Paris this spring we spoke in unison on a European Movement political platform at the start of the British referendum campaign.
But the idea that the dancers are competitive when executing the same movement, in unison or in echoing phrases, soon gives way to the dialogue evoked by the second and third sections of the score's five movements.
Hill -- a dancer and choreographer as well as a dance historian -- shows, step by step, measure by measure, how the brothers built their dances, framing intricate rhythm-tap solos and bravura movement in unison and subtly articulating an infectiously charming tone of teasing camaraderie in their stage relationship.
Traditional squats require the core and lower back for stabilization, the entire body working in unison to perform the movement.
Words are inadequate to describe the emotion aroused by prolonged movement in unison that drilling involved.
