It was an evocative gesture.

Titled "Searching for the Loved Ones at Kerch," it is a friezelike arrangement of human figures, evocative gestures and a dark, looming sky.

That dark, evocative gesture is repeated through the dance, as Douglas Merrifield, set in action by an embrace from Mr. French, draws close to the women in the dance but seldom remains close.

Arms fold and extend in a flow of broken, mysteriously evocative gestures, with hands touching the body gently.

Another brief pas de deux for Ms. Kowroski and Mr. Askegard was filled with muted evocative gestures.

To Goldman, Lincoln's collapsing onto the ground was a "suitably powerful and evocative" gesture that epitomized the essence of the series.

He made a queerly evocative gesture, drawing a gnarled thumb and forefinger down in the air, bringing them together as he did, as if to indicate some narrowing passage.

He said some words understood by no one but him, and made evocative gestures.

Ms. Thomas once again demonstrates her knack for illuminating text with colorful, evocative gestures in two works for soprano and an ensemble of winds, strings, piano and percussion.

Miss McBride has a ballet vehicle to herself in "Tea-Rose," and it suits her scintillating presence and sense of evocative gesture.