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  • We came to realize how these deaths seemed choreographed from somewhere far away.†   (source)
  • Hence, how the wedding seemed to be gearing up into quite such a big deal—guest list of many hundreds, cost of many thousands, costumed and choreographed like a Broadway show —how this wedding seemed to be spiraling into quite such a production I wasn't quite sure.†   (source)
  • The movement down and up the ladders looks like a strangely choreographed two-step.†   (source)
  • Of course, then I started wondering about the kind of girl he's been matched with—someone like Hana, I decided, with bright blond hair and an irritating ability to make even pulling her hair into a ponytail look graceful, like a choreographed dance.†   (source)
  • Esme choreographed the dance routine, based on Señor Franco's instruction.†   (source)
  • There were at least a dozen of them on each level, moving quickly in precise combat choreography.†   (source)
  • I choreographed the scene in my head.†   (source)
  • The incident probably did occur, but with a different choreography.†   (source)
  • The entire invasion force moved across the city in choreographed order, making sure there were no holes or weak spots the insurgents could use to get behind us and attack.†   (source)
  • It was beautiful, he said, like a perfectly choreographed dance.†   (source)
  • There was this final fight sequence — the choreography was unbelievable!†   (source)
  • I had learned there was no room for chaos theory or chance in the carefully choreographed world of jock love.†   (source)
  • There were many classes—ballet, character, modern ballet, pas de deux, body conditioning and choreographic workshops.†   (source)
  • The sidewalks teem with people just narrowly missing each other, as if their movements were choreographed.†   (source)
  • This dance, however, is one that the Society alone can choreograph now.†   (source)
  • Dad and Uncle Robert started discussing business and I wandered away, trying to get a better angle on watching the continuous miner and the shuttle go through their choreographed dance of mining coal.†   (source)
  • I've choreographed your deaths.†   (source)
  • Earlier this year, I was asked to perform in a dance choreographed by Mrs. Atanabi for the Beecher Prep Benefit.†   (source)
  • Over the next hour, Phil reviews and rereviews a complex choreography, a dress rehearsal for the next clay's longawaited show.†   (source)
  • And the camp elements of the program, the choreography and some of the music, now tended to resemble sneak attacks on the dominant culture.†   (source)
  • This indicates that some match rigging may be choreographed at the highest level of the sport—much like the Olympic skating judges' vote swapping.†   (source)
  • And then, just as we're getting to our big crescendo, Shari elbows me, hard—which is not actually part of our choreography.†   (source)
  • Neither gladiator seemed interested in choreographing a dramatic entertainment.†   (source)
  • The hum of the air-conditioning unit drowns out the sound of Oswald's carefully choreographed movements.†   (source)
  • But despite its practical origins, the total effect is a stunning array of celestial bodies in a seemingly choreographed air ballet.†   (source)
  • No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't imagine sitting in an interview and hearing her future boss say, I notice here that you helped choreograph the dance number that helped to put Chi Omega at the top of the sorority rankings your junior year.†   (source)
  • And for the first time since our marriage, I directed him as to the choreography of my pleasure.†   (source)
  • She danced as though she had choreographed the dance.†   (source)
  • At Pendleton, the young Marines began to learn the complex choreography of rifle combat.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Collins played a well-choreographed hand.†   (source)
  • She sold the outfit with graceful twists and turns and clever choreography that had her stepping nimbly onto a pyramid of hard male bodies.†   (source)
  • The police were shepherding the swarm of star-bearing limousines each jockeying for the best tactical arrival moment, since even the choreographed posturings on the red carpet are now covered live on television.†   (source)
  • Dinner with my choreographer.†   (source)
  • As if choreographed, the vehicles swung in unison, each in the opposite direction, the drivers gunning their engines as one, the strange-looking carts racing forward into the shadows.†   (source)
  • The boys loved every bit of the show, especially the choreographed stunts involving rows of riders who could touch the ground and spring up and over to the horse's other side while at a full gallop.†   (source)
  • The whirl of colors is unbearable, a jagged, unsettling choreography.†   (source)
  • The altered tune had no beginning or end, just a random series of pings to match any choreography.†   (source)
  • Clumsy sex (Mick); choreographed sex (Ty); imagined sex (Lawler, assorted others).†   (source)
  • In seven decades as a dancer and choreographer, MARTHA GRAHAM created 181 ballets.†   (source)
  • It was like a game of perfectly choreographed Twister.†   (source)
  • We spent the rest of the morning choreographing steps around fire hydrants and mailboxes.†   (source)
  • We would go out in the parking lot and do choreographed dances.†   (source)
  • She taught jazz and tap and acrobatics and choreographed routines for the dance recitals.†   (source)
  • Right before my eyes she was going through all the motions I had so carefully choreographed and played over in my head so many times.†   (source)
  • They disport themselves to accommodate the next piece of mime, which consists of the PLAYER himself exhibiting an excitable anguish (choreographed, stylized) leading to an impassioned scene with the QUEEN (cf.†   (source)
  • The only alternative was some unthinkable order of music, many rhythms, all keys at once, a choreography in which each couple meshed easy, predestined.†   (source)
  • She choreographs the fight scenes in martial arts movies.
  • The Administration is attempting to choreograph the recovery of our complex economy.
  • Ben again received the medal for best choreography.†   (source)
  • Teacher Xiao was now the co-head of the choreography department and had been promoted to professor.†   (source)
  • His blank eyes appear fixed on the women and their unerring choreography.†   (source)
  • No. It's really too late to change the choreography.†   (source)
  • and doing some choreography that is making the bass player, at least, smile happily.†   (source)
  • The best prize China received was Zhang Weiniang's bronze, Ben received the gold for best choreography and Janie also received a gold medal.†   (source)
  • But I could feel the gradual progression and developments in Gershwin's music, and I could feel Ben's choreography naturally meshing into it.†   (source)
  • The choreography took over six months.†   (source)
  • Ben often threw out certain sections of his choreography, even though we had been rehearsing for days, and then he'd start all over again.†   (source)
  • She'd fallen in love with Ben's choreography and artistry and, despite the outrage of George Balanchine and the artistic director of her company in Geneva, she'd followed Ben to Houston.†   (source)
  • His choreography was breathtaking.†   (source)
  • What if I forget the choreography?†   (source)
  • I didn't forget any choreography.†   (source)
  • She reached into the guts of Ada Lovelace's music box and pulled out a few gears, rearranging them and visualizing the resulting choreography.†   (source)
  • It seemed that ballet teachers and dancers were everywhere, even choreographers.†   (source)
  • The choreographer's name was Ben Stevenson.†   (source)
  • Ben choreographed a dance for Zhang and me over the next few weeks using George Gershwin's music.†   (source)
  • I couldn't believe I was going to work with one of the world's most creative choreographers.†   (source)
  • I attended his farewell gala in Houston—he hadespecially choreographed a solo for me to perform.†   (source)
  • I went to all three choreographers and apologized.†   (source)
  • In the second round we performed a contemporary work Ben had choreographed for us.†   (source)
  • He didn't seem to notice her carefully choreographed response.†   (source)
  • Doing them as part of a larger choreographed piece.†   (source)
  • Caroline told me she'd choreographed a solo for Lilly that was set to a song about sexual abuse.†   (source)
  • And I eat with my choreographer, the tyrant, which means I eat next to nothing.†   (source)
  • It was like Alice and Jasper in the meadow, a blurred spiraling of movement, only this dance was not as perfectly choreographed.†   (source)
  • Jasper was her partner, lunging, reaching through her graceful patterns, never touching her, like every movement was choreographed.†   (source)
  • Out of compassion one of the choreographers brought me cups ofwarm sugared water to replenish my lost energy.†   (source)
  • Day in and day out we repeated many new steps and sweated over many movements, only to find out it wasn't what the choreographers had in mind.†   (source)
  • Ben had planned to choreograph a new version for the Houston Ballet to be staged at the newly completed Wortham Center in Houston.†   (source)
  • Christopher Bruce came with his Ghost Dances, a beautiful work choreographed to South American music.†   (source)
  • Ben's choreographic and teaching talents were immense—he became my mentor and I concentrated on my dancing with all my energy.†   (source)
  • The whole choreographic process for The Hunchback wasfascinating, and Ronnie's theatrical skills allowed me to perform a role that was totally different from my usual princely roles.†   (source)
  • Ben had choreographed a pas de deux using Vivaldi's Four Seasons, and he had especially created it for Janie Parker and me to perform at the Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet gala.†   (source)
  • Etude too was one of the most technically challenging ballets I had seen—I longed to perform it, to learn more about Western culture, to work with these great choreographers.†   (source)
  • As the Houston Ballet's reputation spread, more and more choreographers came and staged their works, and we continued to progress and develop as artists.†   (source)
  • Ben had also choreographed a circle of six consecutive double assemble or double turns in the air, for my solo in Le Corsaim I could barely do one well, let alone six.†   (source)
  • Glen Tetley was another choreographer I loved working with, and he was arguably one of the most highly respected modern ballet choreographers in the world.†   (source)
  • I worked hard, but different choreographers had choreographed different sections of the ballet and I had to listen to three different people's instructions at once!†   (source)
  • One day when I was taking a class at the School of American Ballet, I bumped into George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, two of the most highly regarded American choreographers in the world.†   (source)
  • I worked hard, but different choreographers had choreographed different sections of the ballet and I had to listen to three different people's instructions at once!†   (source)
  • There were students here from England, Canada and other places, a result no doubt of Ben's international reputation as a teacher, choreographer and artistic director.†   (source)
  • Glen Tetley was another choreographer I loved working with, and he was arguably one of the most highly respected modern ballet choreographers in the world.†   (source)
  • Officials from the Ministry of Culture informed us that a fine choreographer and brilliant teacher, the artistic director of the Houston Ballet, was to teach two master classes at our academy.†   (source)
  • There would normally be more than one choreographer, set designer, lighting designer and composer for any Chinese ballet, and the final product always looked as if the various parts didn't quite fit together.†   (source)
  • Another British choreographer, Ronald Hynd, the choreographer of The Sanguine Fan, which the London Festival Ballet performed in China back in 1979, came to Houston to do a full-length version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.†   (source)
  • Booth is fighting the Civil War on his terms, using his talents, choreographing the action like a great director.†   (source)
  • We can't choreograph life events, but we can clasp the hands of those who appear in our paths and see where they lead us.†   (source)
  • The attack is so well choreographed that many of his soldiers are literally miles in front of the main Union force.†   (source)
  • She spent most of the ride talking about the difficulty of her latest routine, one which she herself had choreographed to go along with the band's playing of "Time in a Bottle"; she said that she was talking a lot to keep my mind off of getting nervous, that it must work because Sally Jean did it all the time.†   (source)
  • It was like some secret code; a song would end and another would begin, dancers streaming off the floor while others replaced them, choosing their places in line, leaving her with the impression that the whole thing had been choreographed in advance.†   (source)
  • Dozens, maybe hundreds, were calling and chirping, and every so often a flock of starlings would break from the trees, flying in formations that nearly seemed choreographed.†   (source)
  • The choreographed movement of his hands and feet struck her as something akin to playing the piano, and after a few minutes, she could almost anticipate what he was going to do.†   (source)
  • I'm adapting a piece I choreographed years ago, which had gotten considerable attention at the time, I don't mind saying.†   (source)
  • If he thought about it, their familiarity with weapons and hand-to-hand combat would terrify Booth, with his choreographed stage fights and peashooter pistol.†   (source)
  • Ascension, in its world premiere at the Nelly Regina Theater, is the stunning debut by choreographer Petra Echevarri, recent graduate of Juilliard and winner of the Princess Grace Award.†   (source)
  • The curtain rose on the ballet, which was one of those excellent specimens of the Italian school, admirably arranged and put on the stage by Henri, who has established for himself a great reputation throughout Italy for his taste and skill in the choreographic art—one of those masterly productions of grace, method, and elegance in which the whole corps de ballet, from the principal dancers to the humblest supernumerary, are all engaged on the stage at the same time; and a hundred and fifty persons may be seen exhibiting the same attitude, or elevating the same arm or leg with a simultaneous movement†   (source)
  • Isabel, though she danced very well, had not the recollection of having been in New York a successful member of the choreographic circle; her sister Edith was, as every one said, so very much more fetching.†   (source)
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