Sentence examples for the act of performing from inspiring English sources

There is an element of drag culture in Gaignard's practice, both in the act of performing femininity and the kitschy style in which the performance is executed.

Now, although he would become somewhat animated in the act of performing, he would fall back into his depression almost as soon as the show was over.

Ms. Lewis said that for her course, which will be offered through Class in March, she wants to explore the feeling of being "inside the act" of performing.

"On one level, North Korean society is so centered on the act of performing – in both literal and proverbial senses – that I half-jokingly call the whole country the world's biggest and longest performance," he said.

Not standard beauty, obviously, but a beauty of commitment and absorption: Mr. McCarthy's absorption in the act of performing and conceiving the work, and our absorption, reluctant or otherwise, in his crazy activities.

"It's the art of being, not the act of performing," the experimental-theater director André Gregory muses in "André Gregory: Before and After Dinner," an indelible, gripping documentary portrait by his wife, Cindy Kleine.

The term its makers frequently bring up is "stage fright"—they want the player immersed in what feels like the real act of performing before a huge audience, nerves jangling, and adrenalin running hot.

Regan offers up a fragmentary and tender portrait of place that is delivered with a hesitancy that is as if he is thinking out loud and discovering what he really feels about his native city, and his relationship to it, in the very act of performing.

It plays on the fact that we're all base animals who like to stand still and look at things happening and it's easier to look at someone playing an instrument than it is to watch someone DJing, so the very act of performing live is proof, if proof needs be, that you're a big head".

Her act of performing the last rites (traditionally done by a male heir) was an expression of their views against gender discrimination.

In this work, we investigate the potential of three hypothetical designs of the ACT to perform SN science.