Sentence examples for terpsichore from inspiring English sources

Because dancing was a regular accompaniment of song, it is not remarkable that Hesiod called one of his nine "Delighting in the Dance," Terpsichore.

Praetorius published much music other than his own, and in his collection Terpsichore (1612) he introduced several hundred foreign dance pieces to Germany.

April 21 2012 The outstanding young pianist makes his first appearance at the 92nd Street Y, offering an array of works from both the past (including Bach's English Suite No. 6, Weber's "Invitation to the Dance," and Schumann's "Carnaval") and the present (Oliver Knussen's "Ophelia's Last Dance") that pay tribute to the spirit of Terpsichore.

(Terpsichore is in sneakers and point shoes, shimmying and jogging as well as doing arabesques and pirouettes).

He partnered for the first time with Maria Kowroski's impulsive Terpsichore, while Teresa Reichlen and Sara Mearns made their debuts as Calliope and Polyhymnia.

In one variation he quotes the Terpsichore of "Apollo," (stepping into arabesque on point, her arms framing her head in a halo), while elsewhere he quotes a wide range of statues and bas-reliefs.

The version of "Apollo" City Ballet dances is based on the text that Balanchine arranged at the end of his life, featuring just four dancers: Apollo and the muses Terpsichore, Polyhymnia and Calliope.

But with her, as with Ana Sophia Scheller's elegant Calliope and Sterling Hyltin's capricious Terpsichore, there were moments when she seemed aware of belonging in a masterpiece, anointing the ballet rather than telling it as if for the first time.

The company has two admirable Apollos — the fresh-with-discovery Chase Finlay and the highly purposeful Robert Fairchild — but as yet no remarkable Terpsichore.

Balanchine, like Shakespeare, is big enough to encompass all sorts of interpretations, and the meticulous attention to detail and phrasing shown by Marie-Agnès Gillot (Terpsichore), Laurence Laffon (Calliope), Amandine Albisson (Polyhymnia) and Florian Magnenet (Apollo) revealed fresh aspects of the ballet's simple story of the young god's discovery of the arts and his own powers.

Both the Terpsichore-Apollo duet and the Apotheosis feel underwritten, especially as some of the dancers flounder under the most sustained technical challenges.