Sentence examples for performer drawing from inspiring English sources
"The Simpsons," in its 16th season, continues to be Fox's strongest Sunday performer, drawing 10.31 million.
His shtick is heavily American-influenced – with more than a touch of Jerry Seinfeld – but it's filtered through the highly unusual perspective of a performer drawing on three different cultural inheritances.
Not only is he an electrifying performer, drawing on influences included Congolese rhumba, South African disco, and 80s pop, he's also a talented DJ.
Since leaving wrestling, he's been a consistent action movie performer, drawing big box offices for "The Mummy Returns," "The Scorpion King," "Doom," and comedies such as "The Game Plan," "Tooth Fairy," and "The Other Guys".
In "Bronx Gothic," Ms. Okpokwasili, a writer and multidisciplinary performer, draws on her roots in the eponymous borough.
The remaining dances were filler: "Bloom," a solo choreographed by Andrea Miller to the titular Radiohead song, for the performer Drew Jacoby; and "Among the Stars," a duet for Yuan Yuan Tan and Clifton Brown by the prolific Jessica Lang.
She's a graceful center for a compelling ensemble that includes Marci Reid as a mother-hen songwriter and performer, Drew Humphrey as an energetic dance director and Elise Kinnon as a wisecracking chorine.
Although Katya's ferocity suggests the extravagant real-life passions that even a minor performer draws on, and her high-stakes wrangling with Pierre evokes the hard-core competitive streak that feeds success in any arena, the eighty-three mitutakest takes for these notions to emerge are inert.
Mr. Mullican comes from what might be thought of as the next generation of conceptual performers; he has been performing, drawing and telling stories while under hypnosis since the end of the '70s.
Stylistically, most writers and performers draw from wherever they can.
Perhaps none of the "extreme" chamber performers draws on popular culture more explicitly than the pianist Christopher O'Riley, who will appear solo on July 30.
