Andalusian poetry reflects powerful emotional currents that shaped the era's history and culture, including love of country, the pain and longing of exile, love of learning, and love of God.
Monique Marcil of Zap2it said that the "28 seconds of silence between co-workers Jim and Pam capture all the awkwardness and longing of unspoken love better than any words could.
But eventually there is a third act: the ballerina returns, and Balanchine now makes for her works not of longing but simply of love.
This one I like a lot because it deals in the longings and slippage of love.
But in its presentation of the emotional and mental ambiguities of longing and love, "A to B" is a very grown-up piece of work.
Nobody thought much of the folk poets who wandered through the forgotten villages of Anatolia singing in simple syllable-counting verses of love, longing, and separation.
Otherwise, she is known by fragments and shards of lines – and still adored for her delicate outpourings of love, longing and desire.
Few choreographers have come close to equaling Balanchine, perhaps because they have failed to realize that his abstractions, though devoid of narrative, can be kinetic revelations of love, longing, fear, struggle and aspiration.
A heavy communal grief hung in the air -- her songs of love, longing and loss had touched the soul of the Arab world.
My hope is that as you attend such events, you will go with an open heart ready to be moved by the spirit of love longing to be expressed in traditions both familiar and unknown.
