Nicki Tranter of PopMatters said that the remainder of the album was "tried and tested" dance-pop, noting "Boys" and "Cinderella" revisiting "old Britney territory exploring predictable issues including her love being irreplaceable, her use of the dance floor as an appropriate courting place, and her much-loved girl-ness".
Far from testing dance's limits, or its essence, both Ms. Bell and Ms. Miller's premieres were easy and conventional, the sort of voiceless pastiches that can already be found at many a theater focused only on the bottom line.
Williams's specialty is contained emotion, and that was perfect for this soul-testing dance.
Animation shops have test dances.
In Experiment 3, eight kinds of sound sources were tested as synthetic dance sounds for each honeybee.
We tested this by comparing dance precision when the bees are provided a different sensory reference for their dances.
Instead the would-be stars — actors, dancers, acrobats and at least one reality show alumnus (of "So You Think You Can Dance") — were tested on their physical endurance, their emotional expressiveness and on how good they looked wet.
In the booth, Dean, feeling the chill, put her hands in the air and did a snaky dance, testing the effect of the hooks on her hips.
The model for this was the golden days of American musical, when it was standard procedure to try out a show on the road -- testing the songs, dance routines and jokes with live audiences -- before opening on Broadway.
Before his tracks reach the radio, he has to test his own dance moves out on them first: "If I'm feeling something is going well… I let it play on loop and have a good dance like no one else is in the room.
