Sentence examples for step on point from inspiring English sources

Monarchos failed to gain a step on Point Given en route to a third-place finish, two and three-quarters lengths out of second.

Diane Coburn Bruning's "Echoes of Acolytes" made use of traditional balletic steps on point.

Among the role's highlights is a solo (to pizzicato strings) filled with many quick intricate steps on point.

They were especially so in sequences in which they rose up on the toes of their boots to perform what ballet dancers would call steps on point.

The 20 women of the ensemble moved in a snaking pattern, their legs picking out pristine steps on point while their bodies formed twisting, off-center shapes.

In "Encounters" Ms. Lavagnino illustrates ever-shifting human feelings by emphasizing the physicality rather than the airiness of ballet steps on point.

The choreography combined elements of modern dance and classical ballet techniques, including steps on point for the women (Dena Abergel, Pauline Golbin, Deanna McBrearty and Janie Taylor).

Bourrées are the tiny traveling steps on point that since the 1890s have often been compared, with a great executant, to strings of pearls.

The Dawn solo featured Teresa Reichlen in all her extraordinary lushness, skimming across the stage in closely knitted steps on point.

Here she offers a beautiful backbend, a powerful arabesque, both piquant rhythm and drifting fluency in different steps on point and the ability within a sequence of turns to draw our attention to positions within the steps.

In the elegant prancing-on-the-spot steps on point that look like horse dressage in "Divertimento No 15," the women drove their feet sprucely down into the beat.