EACH of these two dancers brought a different quality of movement to "Porte".
Even "Isle," while somewhat pictorial, tells its tale through quality of movement, formal shapes rather than descriptive gesture.
The dancer works with the horse "in complete synchronization in tempo, quality of movement and phrasing," she said.
Perhaps more remarkably yet, this ballet has a special vitality in the quality of movement its dancers bring to it.
And that quality of movement is designed to give the paintings a dynamic, living sense of time.
"I started playing with movements, making shapes that are dynamic and have a quality of movement to them," Mr. Gehry said in the book.
"The way a resting cat will get into motion – it has a collapse-dependent quality of movement, without which it becomes locked, blocked and stiff".
But he is also intensely feminine, with a quality of movement that seems to conjure the forces of a whole legion of women dancers.
Like Ms. Hay, they create dance scores — a detailed set of instructions that are all about intention and quality of movement rather than specific steps — for each piece.
He added, "What I look for is a quality of movement and an aesthetic I don't already have in my repertoire".
In recalling it, I marvelled too at the precise attention with which he rendered this exquisite little falcon's quality of movement, of being: "…how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing / In his ecstasy!
