Fox's words have a gentle repeating rhythm, as light-footed as the animal that has just left one scene: "Something, someone was just here.
The forms this madness takes are as rowdy as the Three Stooges and as light-footed as Fred Astaire.
She worked with Jerome Robbins in the original cast of Gypsy alongside Ethel Merman ("this wonderful, gossipy hausfrau"), knew Steven Sondheim, sang with Robert Goulet, and danced with Kenneth MacMillan and Charles Durning – both better known later in life as splenetic movie Irishmen, but both famously light-footed as young men.
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra's disc of Schubert's Symphonies Nos 3, 5 and 8. It's labelled Volume 1, and if conductor Edward Gardner can keep conjuring playing as lithe and light-footed as this, then Volumes 2 and 3 will be well worth looking out for.
Daniel Belcher, in his company debut, was a light-footed caperer of a Papageno, who won many a grateful laugh from an audience eager for the comic relief he offered, as did his fellow-debutante, Anna Christy, a sprightly Papagena.
He is a positively vaudevillian performer: a large but light-footed man with a rubbery face, now declaiming in a roar, now mugging in a mischievous stage whisper.
And: "He was a light-footed lad on a Grecian urn chasing truth and beauty.
After all, a heavy-footed Prius owner verges on the oxymoronic as does a light-footed proprietor of a BMW M3 for that matter.
OAE violinist Rachel Podger and FBO leader Gottfried von der Goltz shared the directing, and were light-footed partners as soloists in the seven dance movements of Telemann's Overture in G minor.
