lissome ˈli-səm adjective
: moving and bending with ease
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The word lissome has appeared in nine articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on May 9 in the dance review “Chic Ghosts, as Backup Dancers to the Big Star of Technology” by Gia Kourlas:
As an electronic score plays at New York Live Arts, where “discrete figures 2019” is being presented as part of its Live Ideas festival, a strobe light begins to flicker, softly at first and then more aggressively. The women behind the translucent projection screens reach their arms up and twist their torsos in slow motion.
…. In this attempt to create an alternate reality, the dancers move in unison, like a collective, but also break apart for solos and duets that show their lissome forms in bursts of full-bodied, undulating and jittery physicality. Projected on a screen at the back of the stage — Muryo Honma of Rhizomatiks Research steps into the action frequently to film the dancers live — are images of the women who appear to be floating in infinity.
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