gestural vocabulary

Motherese has a gestural vocabulary that is similar across cultures.

Moreover, the children's gestural vocabularies, on average, were twice the size of their speech vocabularies."

For "The Overcoat" the show's most eloquent piece, Mr. Marceau has pared down his sometimes fussy gestural vocabulary to something more primal.

Mr. Jones's choreography for "Spring Awakening" creates a seamlessly integrated, vivid gestural vocabulary that gives force and life to the repressed physical urges of its teenage characters.

In a 1946 brush-and-ink self-portrait, for example, he is still mixing representation and abstraction: a new gestural vocabulary is in place, but so is the image of his face.

Gordon's genius lies both in his choice of dancers, most noticeably his wife and longtime collaborator Valda Setterfield, and in his gestural vocabulary.

Dance movements may be without significance in themselves, as in ballet or European folk dance, or have a gestural vocabulary or symbolic meaning as in some Asian dances.

On that show, Elaine's idea of getting what she wanted so memorably involved a patented physicality that Ms. Louis-Dreyfus made sure to eliminate one thing from Christine's gestural vocabulary.

Peggy Cyphers's paintings also incorporate multiplicity and layering, but rather than looking to the gestural vocabulary of Abstract Expressionism for her models, Ms. Cyphers works in the tradition of biomorphic abstraction - that is, the abstract use of forms derived from nature.

JACK ANDERSON LKB DANCE Leah Kreutzer Barber's new "excavations" uses video to provide what Ms. Barber describes as a voyeuristic toll to isolate and elaborate her gestural vocabulary and women's experience.

Inside the Theater Lab at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, David Parker, the charismatic "Pied Piper of Sign," had the children enthralled as he led them with mime, music and humor through the basic gestural vocabulary of the deaf.