The choreography is more gestural than her recent work.
The group's relatively small, considered compositions formed the minority opposition to the larger, more gestural and more acclaimed works of the Abstract Expressionists.
The most obvious difference is in his generalizing style, which favors a sensuous, painterly physicality and a more gestural urgency.
Like the costumes, the sets by Daniel Ostling, also a longtime collaborator of Ms. Zimmerman's, are more gestural than literal, evoking human environments rather than the natural world.
I had suggested that political opposition in Damascus often seemed more gestural than real, and that making movies no one could see was therefore a characteristic expression of Syrian dissent.
There are other movement phrases, smaller, more gestural passages, which they attack with similar spirit — a stamp, a punch — as if to say, "I am going to give this everything I have, and I am not going to give up".
His, though, were different from those of British watercolorists — more gestural, for one thing, and mystifying for their use of opaque watercolors at a time when they were typically translucent.
It was tabula-rasa free improvisation: about an hour long, aggressive but not signifying any particular school, loud and soft but mostly loud, way more gestural than narrative, instinctive, abstract, efficacious.
Sir Alec gives him a florid physicality in the Malta scenes, more gestural, more vaudevillian, while in Gibraltar he dons a Noel Coward-like dry wit to match his fussiness and formality.
I'm trying to be more painterly with my work, like more gestural.
