Sentence examples for non-narrative ballets from inspiring English sources

Wheeldon doesn't always tell stories; he makes non-narrative ballets.

Too many non-Balanchine, non-narrative ballets have either been entirely devoid of meaning or drama or have proposed meanings that the choreography is too misbegotten to express.

Even in non-narrative ballets, the speed and lightness that in part define the art would be difficult for our 300-pound ballerina or her one-legged male colleague to meet.

From her early Judson Dance Theater experiments like "Carnation," in which she illustrated the plight of the housewife by stuffing sponges in her mouth and wearing a colander on her head, to her pure, non-narrative ballets, Ms. Childs remains fresh.

For all his reputation as the master of non-narrative ballet, George Balanchine knew how to tell a good story in dance.

In 1926 he conceived, directed, and produced The Mechanical Ballet, a purely non-narrative film with photography by Man Ray and Dudley Murphy and music by the American composer George Antheil.

"I careen from narrative to non-narrative," Mr. Murphy, 53, the most prominent contemporary ballet choreographer in Australia, said in his suburban apartment.

He was also, in several works, ballet's greatest dramatist — there is no contradiction here, for drama pervades his non-narrative work.

Other than that, the video is mostly non-narrative.

He raves about the non-narrative form of westerns.

Petersen's movie chucks all these non-narrative elements overboard.