Sentence examples for precarious dance from inspiring English sources

In the precarious dance for survival, in which we long to honor the dead while still harboring the fear of joining them, will our rivers and streams even be trusted to shelter and then return souls?

Beyond Herman & Helen's Marina, Mr. Haight's departure point, lies a Netherlands-like landscape in which land and water do a delicate, precarious dance: the delta's islands lie below sea level and are in constant danger of flooding.

Well, it's a precarious dance, if there's a dash of irony then genius, but if it's in the long run viewed as an attempt to be cool (a.l.a late 2000s MySpace) than you have failed.

The other pieces in the series included a human hampster wheel in front of St . Pauls Cathedral, a spinning and precarious dance atop a ladder in Trafalgar square, and an extraordinary dance on the London Eye.

Nevertheless, in the financially precarious world of dance, Boston Ballet has run surpluses in the last two years and expects to tally one this season too.

Drew: I would make all these precarious jockstrap contraptions to dance in.

For all the whoop and fun of the Big Dance project, the precarious infrastructure of dance needs more than words to sustain it.

I am grateful to Ann Daly ["In Dance, Preserving a Precarious Legacy Begins Onstage," Feb. 18] for voicing a truth not apparent to most, that despite film, video and notation, dance dies unless danced.

But the position of a dancer in a land where everyone thinks they can dance is a precarious one; it is a struggle to get paid.It may be more appreciated abroad.

The inclusion of high-profile names like Taylor, Graham and Streb and the small sums being made available point to the precarious financial condition of contemporary-dance groups, which still manage to survive through economic ups and downs.

They are in their early 20s, trained at one of the world's most prestigious ballet companies, and they now confront a cold new world: the competitive, often precarious and very much nonsubsidized American dance scene.