Sentence examples for scene of performance from inspiring English sources

Trained at the California Institute of the Arts under John Baldessari in the 1970s, he moved from an anti-materialistic campus scene of performance and body art to the market- and media-savvy hothouse of 1980s New York.

Green's sense of language and gesture is borrowed from Baroque theatre, which was his field of work before he started making films, in 2000 — and "The Son of Joseph" features a scene of performance of seventeenth-century recitation and song that bares the intense, furious expressivity that's packed within his own tamped-down style.

Perhaps he also heard Lee De Forest, the radio pioneer whose laboratory was the scene of the performance, shout, "Encore!" Perhaps the lieutenant heard Mrs. Farrar sing a second song, "Just a-Wearying for You".

Even if initial training techniques are expert and well-taught, both in the classroom and on-scene, frequency of performance is a critical factor.

In the 1900s it was the scene of notable performances by Sir Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, and Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson.

In the opening scene of a recent performance of Discotropic at Performance Space 122's Coil performance festival, the artist and a series of dancers begin to "twerk".

The closing scene, a kind of performance within the performance, seems to be mostly Mr. Kessler's.

McConaughey gave a performance with a relaxed, easy, old-fashioned swing, relishing each line and scene: the kind of performance that reminded me of Jeff Bridges and Gene Hackman in days of yore.

Even though the movie details the personal relationships behind the scenes of public performance, these relationships are essentially professional ones.

The many scenes of musical performance, especially a few done in tensely thoughtful long takes, are reminiscent of Pedro Costa's films (such as "Ne Change Rien").

(Another hint is in the realm of its characters' artistic activity and ambitions — its scenes of musical performance are laughably oblivious).