Word: contort
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...play sees slaves and masters contort the roles they normally take. However, “Maids” goes deeper that simply showing a character mix-up. Channeling Immanuel Kant, Genet shows how the maids’ oppression exists only with their permission; so long as they fight each other instead of Madame, they will remain in chains...
...choreography as “soft” and “delicate,” but also adds that her work has been described as “freaky” and “disturbing,” probably due to her tendency to “contort the body into shapes that are full of tension.” This latter description will likely fits her work in “The Oresteia...
...choreography as “soft” and “delicate,” but also adds that her work has been described as “freaky” and “disturbing,” probably due to her tendency to “contort the body into shapes that are full of tension.” This latter description will likely fits her work in “The Oresteia...
...preppy white boy who goes to Harvard, yet I continue to attempt to contort myself to the beat of The Game’s “West Side Story.” It doesn’t matter that the album is not memorable or artistically breathtaking. It’s fun. There are many things to mock on this album, but sometimes we awkward white men just need to get jiggy with Big Willie...
...this, however, I had to get in the boat. This was a problem. The maneuver I had been shown was simple enough—one foot here, hand there, settle down on the seat and glide away. But I could not contort like that. It might have worked better if I hadn’t assumed that it would be easy. But when I finally got one foot in the hull and another clinging in a panic to the dock still, I decided to improvise...