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wirework
noun
Work, especially openwork, formed of wires.
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By producing a longer arc of action, wirework allows for longer takes — hence, expansion, afterthoughts, fantasy.
Two years ago, as the choreographer on "The Matrix," Yuen entered the lists of American action movies, and lent that exploding-skyscraper genre a little stylishness by teaching kung-fu to Keanu Reeves, and by subjecting the cast to "wirework," a Hong Kong extra whereby the fighters are attached to wires, like Peter Pan, so that they can move upward as well as in the usual directions.
So the wirework is limited, and also artificial, but, like other artifices — head voices in opera, point work in ballet — it can create a poetic image, and give things a certain lilt and unexpectedness.
Most of the wirework is not what you would call dancing.
Yuen has been using wirework for a while now.
Then there is the wirework, allowing the combatants to perform all manner of aviational maneuvers and, once the foe is gasping in the dirt, to zoom off into the sky, trailing, in one scene, a great helix of ribbons.
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Buy now 3. Wireworks Fiamma candlestick: £14, Houseology Solid oak gives these turned candlesticks a touch of warmth and a traditional feel, while a contemporary shape puts a modern spin on the classic candlestick.
The district of Dalmarnock was once a thriving fulcrum of empire, employing tens of thousands in its dyeworks, wireworks and steel industries, forging parts that still grace bridges around the world.
A Wireworks wood and steel bed tray is $110 at Moss, 150 Greene Street (Houston Street).
Roebling Wireworks Building, 675 South Clinton Avenue.
4. A 9-inch basket of curly, anodized aluminum wire in red and purple or turquoise and green is $85 at the Museum of American Folk Art, 1 Lincoln Plaza (Columbus Avenue at 67th Street). 5. Wireworks's bowl of chrome-plated wire is $67.50 at Totem, 71 Franklin Street (Broadway); (888) 519-5587 (toll-free) or www.totemdesign.com.
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