And there she is with that soaring arm, unsleeping, motionless but moving, a fixed image amid the elements of surrounding nature and urban civilization.
Like many works that have been tailor-made for her, Maliphant's tribute draws ample inspiration from her renowned technique: extensions soar, arms ripple and lines are nothing less than Euclidean.
The song itself is a soaring call to arms sung by a drag queen named Manita Bryant (played by Josh Walden and inspired by the antigay singer-activist Anita Bryant), who complains that "my pumps have been ground down, till they're nothing but flats".
Matching the music's liturgical fervor with soaring lifts and reaching arms, the ensemble work climaxes conventionally, with intersecting diagonals of leaping dancers.
It's an ambition that underlines Bell's image of Aisholpan: the little girl with a soaring eagle on her arm, but with her feet firmly on the ground.
The second division is the golden sky above Mary, to which she soars with her arms outstretched towards God who is above.
DALLAS — In the fifth installment of a taut, twisting series that is seemingly redefining legacies by the hour, Jason Terry extended himself, extended his arms, soared around the court and carried the Dallas Mavericks to their biggest victory in franchise history.
HAVANA — At an evangelical church booming with pounding drums, crashing cymbals and a throaty bass, members of an overflow crowd danced in the aisles, sang over a soaring trumpet and swept their arms in prayer.
She echoed the band's dichotomous musical approach with her stage posture: half the time she bent over, emphasizing the pull of the rhythm, and half the time she straightened up and spread her arms, emphasizing the soaring vocal lines.
