Inside the box is a bellerina standing in an arabesque.
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But that arabesque also shows you her poise: grace under pressure.
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"We did a lot of heavy-weighted, low reps of arabesque pulls hooked up to resistance pulleys, as well as arabesque lifts with heavy ankle weights in order to build and lift the butt," she says.
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Miller: Do the arabesque death spiral release, and then we'll stop here.
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Usually in an arabesque the dancer's front arm continues the line of the extended rear leg; but Ashton here develops an arabesque in which the ballerina's arms (front and back) both continue the downward slope of her shoulders.
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The first move, the arabesque sous sous, gives a simple plank an upgrade.
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Pas de bourrée, arabesque, attitude and pirouette, pas de couru — you get it.
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She finishes on a ballerina flourish with a pirouette and an arabesque. Nice.
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The central ballerina, supported by her partner, holds an immobile arabesque, center stage.
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A moment later she's extending her leg high behind her in arabesque penchée.
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Her delightful short, Arabesque (1929), is an evocation of the world's material properties.
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Events and their shadows arabesque after one another, begging for interpretation and eluding it.
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Islamic art features several motifs and styles, with the arabesque perhaps being the most recognizable.
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There is also a full bathroom with arabesque-pattern wallpaper and a marble-topped vanity.
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Cooper, who was wearing an arabesque-patterned blouse and typing on a MacBook, is a comedian.
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From there, the story unfurls through different points of view in a moving arabesque crossing generations.
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In 1994, Kensington introduced Arabesque, a romance-focused imprint for novels about and by black women.
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In the theater, cellphones are switched off; here, you can live-tweet every arabesque and extension.
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The arabesque glyphs reminded me of graffiti and tagging without ever fully crossing into that territory.
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Later she keeps one leg extended high behind her (arabesque penchée) while softly clapping her hands together.
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And then gradually I added an arabesque or a little chassey and finally I learned to pirouette.
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S&P will use data from ESG ratings providers Sustainalytics and Arabesque to screen out ineligible companies.
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Nathan Chen of the US performed an arabesque in the Men's Single Skate Short Program Team Event.
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How is the squat of a weight-lifter any less beautiful than the line of an arabesque?
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Like this crazy bright-green knee, or that beautiful passage of flesh that becomes a swooping arabesque.
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Given the strange, arabesque twists of Van Gogh's roots, it's almost impossible to distinguish them as vegetation.
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Inka, you've utilized a process of automatic drawing, with forms emerging from shapes and lines, like the arabesque.
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I gave him a high penchée arabesque [leg extended high behind, while the torso and head lean low].
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Other motifs recur, notably a winged or swimming arabesque, where dancers balance on one leg with arms outstretched.
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I know that when I'm making a simple arabesque, and it's nothing other than a line, it isn't interesting.
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Angela had been dancing, her leg lifting into an arabesque, her long fingers extending out in front of her.
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I love a moment in this dance where the woman, in profile to us, holds a formally pure arabesque.
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According to Feiner, Arabesque is able to outperform its benchmark by excluding these companies, which tend to have higher risk.
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Arabesque bacteria flourish in this petri dish as the handful of residents and their twisted joint history cultivate large questions.
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" Gregory Peck, whom Mr. Donen directed in "Arabesque" (1966), a drama of international intrigue, praised his "terrific instinct for communicating.
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The main street in town was dominated by the Jama mosque, an Arabesque confection built in the mid-19th century.
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Arabesque, a "quant" asset manager that uses ESG data, examines the sustainability of over 7,000 of the world's largest listed companies.
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When Ms. Bromberg held a single arabesque line that was revolved twice by Mr. Swatosh, wasn't her arm stretching too high?
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Everything in the picture, from a bravura swirl of bedclothes to fast notations of arabesque-patterned wallpaper, bespeaks exultant self-satisfaction.
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Standing in male-female pairs, they face upstage, and as the music starts, the men swing into arabesque facing the audience.
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And as he makes plans for Arabesque artists' residency, which, once it is officially up and running, will include an Arabic immersion course, he realizes it will be suitable only for people who appreciate the particular character of Arabesque, with its ancient rooms and courtyard, with neighbors hanging their laundry and chatting as they do so.
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He was working on a film called Arabesque, with Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren, and he needed a horse from the stables.
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The new kitchen has a central island that seats six, white marble countertops, an arabesque marble-and-glass backsplash and Thermador appliances.
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Each captures a young female figure in different poses: frozen in the arabesque position; bent backwards slightly with a tambourine; and bowing gracefully.
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The arabesque can create the feeling that things are alive and animated, and it gives everything the fairy tale quality that I love.
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Related: Inside the First Arabic Museum of Contemporary Art Arabic Calligraphy Explores Identity and Loss Projected Arabesque Textiles Adorn a Middle Eastern Waterfront
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In this next part she's switching again from fifth position to arabesque on point, but twice as fast and as explosively as before.
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Later, I find myself moving slowly, back and forth, between two paintings from Davis's Pueblo del Rio series, "Concerto" and "Arabesque" (both 2014).
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Unison work showed off low arabesque turns that were, again, connected to the back, with the spiraling motion driving much of the movement.
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The inside was nothing special, but the arabesque scrollwork and embroidered greenish furniture in the large salon looked like antiques in a deserted museum.
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Across from the entrance is a dining room with an open-beam ceiling, a fireplace and a floor hand-painted in a rust arabesque pattern.
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Pull your torso up, and swing over to the left diagonal, placing hands on the ground as you extend your right leg straight up to arabesque.
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In one exit, she held an arabesque and tipped forward, not by muscular force, but as if a breeze had pushed her softly into the wings.
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After the poem's last line, the piano falls silent, and the soprano continues wordlessly in a trancelike sequence of arabesque lines, some sung through closed lips.
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By composing with the arabesque of my drawing, but also by bringing the engraved page and the facing text page together so that they form a unit.
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Solos offer chances to try out extended variations on one idea; hops on a single leg with changing arms, or a balletic arabesque inflected by rotating shoulders.
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I did ballet when I was younger, and I remember my arabesque stopped being even after 12, and I didn't realize it was because I was physically changing.
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She has a characteristic arabesque, in which one leg stretches straight behind her, not high but firm, while her torso arches, and her arms echo the leg's line.
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The Sugar Plum strikes a pose on point (arabesque, with leg stretched behind her), lightly holding her partner's hand — and then, without moving, she travels across the ground.
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A small, jewel-perfect mosque at the desert end terminates the long, central courtyard, its ceiling covered by a filigreed, computer-generated pattern that recalls traditional arabesque motifs.
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The Sisi clan came to dominate the arabesque trade in Khan al-Khalili, the premier tourist market in Cairo, and the family still owns nearly ten shops there.
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She wore slacks and a tie as she stepped off the plane in Cairo, where she proceeded to the presidential palace, an ornate cream stone building with arabesque designs.
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Related: Miguel Chevalier 3D Prints the Enormous Head of a Roman God A Celestial Cross of Light Illuminates a Church Ceiling Projected Arabesque Textiles Adorn a Middle Eastern Waterfront
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A hitherto crucial dance phrase in Odette's main solo, a pair of jumps that end with a famous stretch back into swan arabesque, is here replaced by a completely changed sequence.
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Mr. Jeremias also introduced a much larger project, restoring two Ottoman-era palaces into a luxurious 12-room boutique hotel called the Efendi, located around the corner from Mr. Fallenberg's Arabesque.
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"We need to move beyond just counting women and start taking into account culture," says Barbara Krumsiek of Arabesque, an asset manager that uses data on "ESG": environmental, social and governance issues.
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The tile was painted a too-bright shade of turquoise and decorated with vaguely arabesque geometric patterns that repeated too often and too obviously, like the stitching on a cheap kitchen tablecloth.
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The neighboring family of two parents and adult children immediately became involved in Arabesque, helping out with the renovation work, bringing food, inviting the Fallenbergs for meals and generally making them feel welcome.
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The dancing features both large and small moves; some tucked-up jumps stay fondly in memory, as do, above all, some one-legged hops in arabesque by Ms. Felesina, judiciously catching the music's rhythm.
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Usually a développé — a movement in which one raised leg unfolds into a straight line — is done on a stationary supporting leg, but Mr. Gomes twice did a développé backward into arabesque while hopping.
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An at-home-after-a-long-day impromptu dance party in May, Arabella in arabesque pose inside the White House China Room, with a caption from Ivanka about being ready for the weekend in June.
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Mr. Hadreas has moments of partnering Ms. Wallich or being the one moved himself; in one instance, he poses in an arabesque with his back leg held up by a dancer as others rotate him.
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Later, when the parents are separating the two lovers, the superb Estrada does a large, dramatic step—dégagé front to développé arabesque back—over and over as he moves backward, away from his Layla, Sabella.
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"It was a small black-and-white photograph of Diana Adams in arabesque, as I later learned to call it, in George Balanchine's compact version of the sublime 'white' acts of 'Swan Lake,'" she wrote.
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And in the ballroom scene — for the first time in any production since the early 1940s — is the climactic moment when Siegfried kneels to Odile and she grips his knee as she holds a triumphant arabesque.
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The suuuper relatable truck was parked outside Baccarat's flagship store on New York City's Madison Avenue, and it served Lady M's signature high-dollar Mille Crêpes and petit fours on Baccarat Clear crystal Arabesque dessert plates.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Screenwriter Ennio Flaiano once stated that "In Italy, the shortest distance between two points is the arabesque," encapsulating in one sentence his compatriots's talent for long-windedness, convolution, and elegance.
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Mr. Martins, who choreographed the piece, makes a request: At one point, when she thrusts her leg behind her, he wants her to bend it to one side, forming a sort of arabesque-with-a-twist.
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In "The Risen Lord" (1864) Houghton writes that the lower part corresponds to the virtues and sufferings of Christ's life on earth whereas the upper part, dominated by arabesque white threads represents his ascension into heaven.
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Nicole Kidman has been a favorite all awards season and ended her style streak on a high note with her custom Armani Privé gown with arabesque embroidery, plus Harry Winston jewelry and a vintage diamond Omega timepiece. 4.
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For instance, an analysis of more than 200 academic papers conducted by Arabesque Asset Management and Oxford University found that between 80-90 percent of studies show good sustainability standards lower companies' costs, improve performance and boost share prices.
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" Leslie Fiedler, in his 1969 essay on postmodernism, cheerfully characterized the age as "anti-rational" and "blatantly romantic," while John Barth, a self-described "postmodern romantic formalist," wrote an essay relating postmodernism to the figure of the Romantic "arabesque.
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Jared Angle, the company's most redoubtable partner, is variously paired with both Sara Mearns and Rebecca Krohn; at one point, he holds a first arabesque — extending his line on one leg — while a woman walks around to revolve him.
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The designers covered a custom banquette in outdoor-grade pink fabric capable of withstanding wet swimsuits and children's spills, and installed hand-painted arabesque terra-cotta floor tiles from Tabarka Studio that extend from the inside to the outside.
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Some pieces, such as "Paire de fibules (khella) ornées de rinceaus et d'une khamsa – Or moulé et ciselé" (20th century), from Moknine, Tunisia, display floral arabesque designs full of piercing filigree inherited from Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine traditions.
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DeWitt's story is a deliciously light arabesque around the most popular and prestigious of these concepts, the Death of the Author—a figurative phrase used by Roland Barthes and others to describe an ideal authorial withdrawal from a literary text.
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The brassy single "Arabesque" boasts a pummeling afrobeat inspired rhythm, a sample of Nigerian music icon Fela Kuti incanting "music is the weapon," his son Femi Kuti performing a blistering sax solo, and his son Made Kuti on the horn arrangements.
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At a recent "Swan Lake" rehearsal, Gonzalo Garcia, her Prince Siegfried, watched in fascination as she followed the suggestion of the ballet master Susan Hendl to think of her relevé — rising on her toes — as coming from her hip in arabesque.
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My favorite such moment — I love its touch of absurd exaggeration — comes when Lysander, blowing good-night kisses to Hermia, extends the gesture with a classical line that elegantly suffuses his entire body (in ballet terminology, arabesque penchée en fondu).
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Early in the opening song — "Rehab" — a dancer lands from a jump in a briefly sustained arabesque with such perfect timing on a bell-like note in the music that you feel how dance, music and you are enmeshed in a single weave.
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Investment strategies based on these sorts of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors is one of the biggest trends to hit the financial industry in decades, says Andreas Feiner, founding partner of asset management firm Arabesque, which invests according to strict ESG criteria.
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In one of the crowning moments of the pas de deux, she holds that arabesque, leaning against Aminta's chest, while he frames her head in his hands, and she sensuously sweeps her arms past his hands, down and apart like opening wings.
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Jumbled heads share a bottle, which a single hand lifts and pours out, under a table that is topped with a stuffed olive, a cigarette emitting an arabesque of smoke, and a huge salami, its sliced end textured with psychedelic dots of color.
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In connection with this choreographer's visual art exhibition "About an Arabesque," Bokaer, a former dancer with the Merce Cunningham company, presents "The Genie," an abstract work that examines the loaded representation of a Middle Eastern or North African man as a granter of wishes.
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When she dances for the courtiers who have turned up during a hunt, a sustained balance in arabesque becomes an expression of sheer joy, her final circle of chainés — quick whirling turns done in a circle — a thrilling expression of an uncontainable inner vitality.
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The actors of Terrence McNally's new play may not quite manage a perfect arabesque in midair, but they'll attempt to capture the spirit of the Ballets Russes, particularly the relationship between Sergei Diaghilev (Douglas Hodge) and his protégé and lover Vaslav Nijinsky (James Cusati-Moyer).
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When Ms. Kleven crosses the stage with quizzical, stuttering steps, or Mr. Ingle balances in a low arabesque, or Ms. Omagbemi sits in a split and, smiling, slaps the ground, each seems to be slipping into something custom-made, for their bodies and the space.
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When one woman extends a leg into the air behind her — a ballet arabesque amid a work that otherwise includes no ballet — while stretching her two arms up into the air, the position has astonishing, heroic gestural force, like a culmination or a turning point.
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" When interviewed about why the 2001 Bebop film, Knockin' on Heaven's Door, has an "Arabesque" atmosphere in the imagery and the music, he replied that "I had more of a flavor, or gut instinct if you like […] I just felt this piece should be Arabic.
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A rear staircase leads up to the new master suite, which includes a bedroom with wide-board floors, whitewashed paneling and a vaulted ceiling; the master bathroom has a large walk-in shower with a pebble floor and an arabesque pattern inset into white subway wall tile.
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Mr. Angle lets Ms. Peck fall one way in his arms, next raises her so that she opens up into a soft arabesque (1:44), and then gently tips her so that she falls back the other way, turns to face him and subsides in a crescent.
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Majestic, individual, she brought out the heroically Russian aspect of the jumps as well as the lissome sweep and swivels; I love the bold way she plunged to extend her line in arabesque penchée, only to pivot and address her face and torso to the sky.
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Mr. Armani has a fondness for a color theme, and the chic of pixelated jacquard jackets over skinny black trousers and jeweled T-shirts soon segued into orange gowns in watercolor silks, sometimes with a jeweled bib around the neck, stiff ruffled cape or Arabesque embroidery.
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Hermione (Jurgita Dronina), in anguish in Act I and again when reunited with her husband in Act III, stretches a powerfully pure arabesque line from front arm to raised back leg, and then repeatedly turns on the spot in this position, rising again and again, urgently, onto point.
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At the Women's March last year, Brooklyn-based artist Baseera Khan donned one of her sculptures: a thick, black acoustic blanket—the kind used for sound-proofing recording booths—fashioned into a full body cloak with a round opening near the top, embroidered with a golden, arabesque trim.
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The camel spin has a funny (if contested) origin story; supposedly, it was known as an "arabesque" until some poor unknown '30s skating contestant performed it so poorly that his or her silhouette formed the unfortunately hunched shape of a desert ungulate, and somehow the nickname rose to dominance.
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The better the dancer's first arabesque penché—the more exact, the more spirited, the more singing its line—the more he or she will embody the promise of the ancient Greeks, lasting at least up to Keats, that beauty, truth, and virtue are inseparable, that we live in a good world.
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The dancers' arms curve and, their torsos twist into classical shapes, and as their legs rotate outward, recognizable steps begin to appear — a shimmer of a "pas de chat," the stately lines of an arabesque — as though Mr. Forsythe were riffling through the pages of a ballet master's text book.
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The sloping forms evoked the earth's curvature and mountains of the New Mexican landscape: it gave her a format in which to establish a relationship between the outer shape and the inner forms, explore shifts in hue and value, as well as overlay the stacked forms with an arabesque line.
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As the music's first variation starts, Swanilda arrives (as if pouncing) into fifth position, lingers there as if teasing the suspense — and then steps smartly out onto one point, arriving in the position known in ballet as arabesque, stretching a gestural line from one forward arm through the leg extended behind her.
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Three years later, after many months of restoration and renovation, Mr. Fallenberg is calling his new home Arabesque, with its motif taken from the stenciled signature on a home just down the block that is owned by the grandfather of Suha Arafat, the widow of Yasir Arafat, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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Mixed drinks, which are almost impossible to order at a long bar near the entrance but easily acquired at an arabesque nook in the back, are in the twenty-dollar range—not that the price seems to bother any of the ebullient patrons, who are presumably too drunk or too well heeled to care.
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The man almost throws the woman forward in a jumping lift that arrives (in profile to the audience) on one point, the other leg stretched behind her in arabesque; but then she turns her head back to look at him over her shoulder as he comes close to her, and she softens the line of her raised leg.
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Under slate-violet skies, "Pueblo del Rio: Concerto" and "Pueblo del Rio: Arabesque" place a man playing a grand piano and six ballet dancers in tutus on a street or sidewalk in Pueblo del Rio, a large housing project built in Los Angeles in 1942 with design input from the architects Richard Neutra and Paul Williams.
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He kneels to her, as if in submission; she, on point, her legs extended behind her in arabesque, bends down toward him as the music builds to a knockout climax (4:10) – but, though you expect her to meet his face in a kiss, she instead lowers her head, past his, onto his shoulder, both evading and embracing him in the same moment.
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