Alternately obvious and barely perceptible, his many physical attitudes — fluid, taut, rubbery, hammy — lend a theatrical consistency to the subject matter, which is as much about the simple act of two people dancing together as it is about showing a family tree of New York dance.
According to Ussher, (Ussher 1997 as cited in Samantha 2004) the types of women in accordance with these cultural attitudes can be divided into those who follow a traditional femininity ('doing girl') and those who resist it ('resisting girl') in dress and physical attitudes.
It put across a strong physical attitude, not merely a tough-girl snarl.
That he manages to distinguish them all in physical attitude and vocal habit works beautifully with the family resemblance that he naturally dispenses among them all.
Theirs was a physical attitude I had been encountering since I arrived in London — on the streets, on the underground, in lobbies — without being aware of it.
"His strengths are his technical level, his vision, his intelligence, his disciplined attitude and his physical attitude to compete at a high level.
How had she come up with that particular physical attitude (shifted hips, pursed lips and an inane over-the-shoulder gaze), Ms. Hilton was asked.
Besides loveliness, it displays a rousing precision of physical attitude, abnormal for a flesh-besotted artist who, as a rule, was only vaguely cognizant of muscles and bones.
How had she come up with that particular physical attitude — shift hips, purse lips, gaze inanely over shoulder — Ms. Hilton was asked.
Instead, they were encapsulated in a physical attitude: each character was represented in Pryor's walk, in his gestures — which always contained a kind of vicarious wonder at the lives he was enacting.
Brecht quickly retrained him - he had attended the local Magdeburg acting school - and Schall internalised the theory of alienation and learned how to identify the Brechtian gestus, or characteristic physical attitude, which contained the key to a character, and how to demonstrate, rather than inhabit, his roles, to avoid empathy.
