She silently smoothed a foot passing tightly through first position and in a few words instructed a dancer on how to execute the deceptively simple lashing movement called a flic flac.
But Armitage never condescends to the music or to her audience — this is complex, lashing, sometimes unfriendly movement, performed by her adventurous dancers.
Pairs of dancers, facing one another from opposite sides of the long space, begin to copy one another with precise, idiosyncratic movements; arms lashing away from the body and pulling back, body dipping and ducking to the sides, the torso occasionally contracting spasmodically.
The forms are pierced and opened up, and the momentary, unstable poses, with draperies fluttering and tails lashing, give a vivid movement that releases the figures from the Mannerist spell.
Kiev's new mayor Vitali Klitschko, a former world boxing champion who was one of the most prominent leaders of the protest movement, lashed out at those still occupying the square, saying authorities had tried to negotiate with them.
The Vice-President and other members of the Administration were giving the anti-war movement an almost daily lashing.
Full of deep squats, undulating, lashing arms and hypnotic spinning, the movement feels more ritualistic than presentational.
With eyeliner, (Liquid or gel if you have a steady hand, pencil if you haven't) slowly, with small movements, brush along your lash line.
