Sentence examples for rhythmic shifts from inspiring English sources

Flowing phrases, which occasionally recalled classical ballet, were occasionally punctuated by unexpectedly abrupt rhythmic shifts.

The performers made clear the quick, odd rhythmic shifts in seamless skeins of dance and music.

Both the Noisettes, from London, and the Dirtbombs, from Detroit, play furtive, murky garage-punk that's marked by surprising rhythmic shifts.

But because they wear ankle bells and their technique emphasizes stamping and sharp rhythmic shifts, kathak can produce quite a clatter.

Highly effective in the opening scenes, this approach lacks the rhythmic shifts that would disguise the monotony of the structuring of later scenes.

The company was at its best in the program's greatest work: Balanchine's "Agon". Even on tape, Stravinsky's score crackled with energy, and the company responded well to all the surprising rhythmic shifts in both the choreography and the music.

"Ignorance," the first single, played like a more muscular No Doubt song, with a rhythmic shift at the hook that suggested a quick cough of ska.

In theory it might sound simple, but in practice it's pretty mind-bending, especially in Reich's Piano Phase, where the second player must gradually make the minuscule rhythmic shift from one semiquaver to the next, before locking into the next note in the pattern.

In Panel 58: "In the North the Negro had better educational facilities," the young students are striving towards attainment and independence in a rhythmic shift to the right.

Many have credited RP Boo with initiating the rhythmic shift from the syncopated 4x4 bounce of juke to the unruly super-swung lurch that is "footwork".

Martinů's treatment of the subject is an enchanting, dreamlike fantasy, notable for its rhythmic variety, shifting harmonic textures and clearly etched vocal lines.