By the end the dancers embody the music rather than, as at the beginning, dance to its notes.

Mr. Morris's dancers embodied all these qualities and added 20th-century insouciance.

In perpetual motion, eyes gazing skyward, hands whirling and fluttering like a flock of butterflies, the dancer embodies a child's ecstasy in merely being alive.

Michael Rosenbloom (violin) and Freda Locker (piano) provided the music that the dancers should embody but this production looks like a cloying music appreciation class.

But the dancers embodied the Balanchinian precept that less is more in dancing that was at once everyday and exalted.

Instead, the eight dancers embody anomie, proclaiming it in every lean and hungry lunge and stretch.

Stretched across the stage with torsos proudly lifted, the dancers embody the joy of faith contained by complex stepping patterns performed in unison.

The dancer must embody the fluid motion that surges through the traditional music that the dancers perform to.

And nine dancers zanily embodied lurching shifts of emotion in Mr. Parsons's "Mood Swing."

And two dancers, Guillermina and Roberto, perfectly embodied the music's implied narratives of desire and elegance, pride and abandon.