Even when the music breaks into a jumpy back-and-forth, the mood is industrious, not aggressive.
"Either I'll do Schalke – or Schalke does me," the iconic general manager Rudi Assauer said about the taking the reigns of one of the Bundesliga's most nervous and jumpy clubs back in 1981.
Nina Raine directs April de Angelis's latest, Jumpy, which harks back to the days of the Greenham Common protests and stars Tamsin Greig.
As she spoke, tourists stopped to take pictures with iPhones and iPads, and her security guard, looking slightly jumpy, snapped his head back and forth and tapped his foot.
Supporters of the theater were calling the night a success as Mr. Levinson walked in to a filled house, although some seats were empty; a few people stood in the back, too jumpy to sit.
But the grainy, jumpy videophone images being beamed back from Iraq would have been familiar to him.
In "ForeverandaDay" the chaotic continually threatened to spill out and run loose, much like the dim flashlight beam, wielded by a performer, that bounced off the lighting grid above us, falling back down in jumpy fragments of light.
Wall Street's jumpy summer can be traced back to the Federal Reserve's decision to adopt a bias towards higher interest rates at the May 18 meeting.
This was the singer at his most musically eclectic, backed by a range of jumpy funk and soul.
"The first day back, you'll be a little jumpy and a little out front," he said.
On "Two-Headed Coin" it's a jumpy bass line by Mr. Simpson, and on the melancholy "Back and Forth" it's Mr. Gursky's proud, yet mournful drumming.
