The dance is packed with exquisite movement phrases and striking small gestures, fleeting though they are.

Eventually, these things are supposed to add up, like the cumulative effect of repeated movement phrases.

Soon after, both repeat a movement phrase several times.

The disjointed movement phrase becomes an art unto itself here.

Ms. Rogoff worked with the dancers to come up with each movement phrase.

Miss Miller repeats her movement phrases as she moves around the stage.

Dancers are grouped according to the number of calls, or movement phrases, they have mastered.

In a recent rehearsal, she concentrated on movement phrases as well as eye focus.

The ingenuity of the choreography at its best has one partner continuing a movement phrase begun by the other.

A basic movement phrase becomes the theme that is repeated and augmented.