Sentence examples for ordinary gesture from inspiring English sources

And in the service of such realism, she had a feel for ordinary gesture that went way beyond most of her colleagues'.

But by the end the repetition of her tasks dissipated their power, and the tension of turning an ordinary gesture into a grand statement wore thin.

Experimenting with ordinary gesture and "found" movement before nondance movement became the rage in the 1960's avant-garde, Mr. Taylor ruffled establishment feathers with "7 New Dances" in 1957.

Bribery and violence have left no space for the ordinary gestures of friendship.

But what is more impressive is the way the show transfigures ordinary gestures.

In the mix of ballet and ordinary gestures, we catch the suggestions of drama and human relationships, all heightened by Jennifer Tipton's incomparable lighting.

When Mr. Taylor created "Lost, Found and Lost" in 1982, he was looking even further back than "Scudorama," to his late-'50s experiments with ordinary gestures and "found" movement.

Somewhere deep in the bones of this choreographer and dancer lies a laudable power to take ordinary gestures and give them opulence.

While he draws on ordinary gestures and life for his dances, he seeks inspiration in places his contemporaries don't, as evidenced by the Monteverdi madrigals.

In Bausch's stagings, as in Akerman's dramas, ordinary gestures are emphasized and formalized into dances, and Akerman films Bausch's dancers as she films the actors in such movies as "Jeanne Dielman" and "Toute une Nuit".

In fact, if the tricky, too often mishandled genre of historical fiction is good for anything, it's this: the reconstruction of what went unrecorded, the countless vanished moments and ordinary gestures that constitute the past.