These gymnastically agile dancers bent forward and sideways as well.

"No good that way," he gasped, reversing direction gymnastically at the gap.

"Every time the sport starts to get too gymnastically oriented, the sport rebels."

Riker would have preferred to vault out of the crate and make a gymnastically perfect landing on the ground.

But no doubt interesting for students, gymnastically."

The gymnastically oriented company opened a five-week season there on Monday night and looked as perky as ever.

His underlings, jumping in and out of roles and costumes, are a gymnastically inclined ensemble.

The carnality of Sara and Simon's relationship is evoked by having them toss each other around (in gymnastically impressive ways) with no clothes on.

Simmer in the juices of 1960's avant-garde dance and 70's performance art and garnish with eight talented, attractive, gymnastically inclined actors.

Again they dodged it easily, gymnastically sailing above it and, in unison, firing their sedaters into the dark aperture.

The gymnastically entwined children of nature - Miss Smith, Mr. Tolle -were supposedly more spiritual.

He is a stage actor who never stops challenging himself and his audience and who swings gymnastically from the weightiest of classics to sardonic contemporary comedies.

While Daniel Kramer's production is more flash than feeling, it features a first-rate, gymnastically stylized performance from Edward Hogg in the title role (2:20).

He characterized Miller's choreography as "distinctly contemporary in its incorporation of everything from gymnastically daring contact improvisation to pedestrian motion to the disarmingly elegant pointed toe."

And in the cheerfully homoerotic "Three Ways," he, Julian Barnett and Alexander Gish competed both gymnastically and flirtatiously.

I have already learnt the rustic manner of leaning upon a gate; and I was thus gymnastically occupied at the moment when my eye caught the house that was made for me.

And Mr. Young's beautifully written Act I monologue, in which he gymnastically acts out his memory of sabotaging his one chance at success, is the high point of the show.

And in the title role of a soldier descending into madness and Othello-strength jealousy, Edward Hogg packs an inescapable, throbbing anguish within the outlines of a gymnastically stylized portrait.

Several years prior to Pontormo's masterpiece, the Florentine painter Rosso Fiorentino had painted a more phantasmagorical and gymnastically challenged array in his crowded version of the descent from the cross, the Deposition of 1521.

It was as though they had been swarmed by a million fleas, each one of the armed officers clawing compulsively at any exposed skin, and gymnastically attempting to get hands inside their clothes to the places this spreading plague had penetrated.

She has made nearly 30 movies, including science fiction spectacles like the three "Terminators," two of the "Aliens" movies and the new "Aeon Flux," which stars Charlize Theron as a gymnastically gifted assassin in the 25th century.

In a commercial pseudo-erotic setting, however, pole dance is often performed less gymnastically and is used more as a prop in striptease, Go-Go or lap dancing, with the performer simply holding the pole or moving around it without performing acrobatics.

As the fond revival of Mr. Shanley's "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea" at the Second Stage Theater reminds us, foreplay in the world of this gymnastically romantic writer tends to resemble a main event from World Wrestling Entertainment.