The men make sharp gestures while peeling off their clothes and take jagged, predatory walks.
"Ballo Per Sei," though conventional, shows a shift for Mr. Liang, whose ballets tend to mirror sharp gestures with broadly drawn emotional angularity.
Jeyasingh's choreography elaborated that impression by channelling the gregarious sociability of Veronese's canvas into solos of vivid, sharp gestures and choppy rhythms, making each dancer look like a contemporary doppelganger of one of the painted figures.
Between sharp gestures that hang in air like the strokes of a Chinese master calligrapher and pools of silence, the speaker is heard in snippets of text in several languages by a handful of mandarins of modern prose, Handke, Adorno and Celan among them.
Mr. Kelly is sparing with his sharp, simple gestures.
We hear Dr. Taylor's absorbing account of her stroke from the 18 dancers, who narrate it in shifting groups, their physical vocabulary alternating between sharp, decisive gestures and flowing, expansive phrases suggesting the doctor's dislocated hemispheres.
Over the course of the series, as Voldemort gathered in power and corporeality, his wrenched, Medusa-like face eventually growing a body (though oddly losing its nose), the actor started to fill out the character with sharp, indelible gestures, a flick of the wrist, a twist of the mouth.
The works are mostly landscapes in which painterly gestures, sharp edges and other signs of technical effort are minimized.
Sandra Brown made Gamzatti's steps and gestures sharp, and when she faced Nikiya in a dramatic confrontation, it was like a meeting of tigers.
Rather, the actors give freely of themselves (Gosling's self-conscious whimsy adds some notable moments of comedy), while the camera, in sharp attention to gestures, glances, textures, and faces, and by way of some soul-shuddering closeups, gets past mere performance to the seeming core of character.
