Sentences with phrase «same dance piece»

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Though an entire subplot devoted to homosexuals in a film like this is usually cause for trepidation, American Wedding distinguishes itself with a refreshing affection for its gay characters — enough so that a few same - sex smooches are shown without irony, a same - sex dance is left uncommented - upon at the reception of the wedding in question, and a gay character named Bear (Eric Allan Kramer) is allowed to be a key figure in two set - piece gags.

The movie explores the lack of empathy for one another, while at the same time operates on many levels including as a suspense thriller, a character - driven piece, a musical (there's a even great dance number) and finally a story of love, grief and loss.

The result is a trim, scrubbed work, as strange and distilled as a mid-1930s Tod Browning chiller, where the smallest hint of sentimentality or whimsy (say, the girls dancing to a pop song) is literally short - circuited and the mirror the heroine stares into in the final, closure - denying shot might have been pieced together from the same glass shards seen in the unnerving opening credits.

Jordan Wolfson's piece (Female Figure) 2014 is an animatronic robot that dances in front of a large mirror, while at the same time seeking eye contact with the spectator.

The set is presented with two films, a black and white dance choreography by Anita Pace in the manner of Martha Graham's mythological dance pieces, and a large color projection of a dance filmed in Kelley's installation of the same work created in 1999, where dance movements were derived from the monkeys in the laboratory experiments, with violent movements evoking the films of psychologist Albert Bandura's studies of the effect of televised violence of on children.

At the centre of the stage, Parreno has placed the iconic Jasper Johns piece set elements for «Walkaround Time», which was created as props part of the set for Merce Cunningham's dance of the same name in 1968.