arabesque

Ruble perfected her movements in sync with the music and the other dancers, her head tilted at just the right angle, her arabesque hitting the correct line, her discipline and note-taking clearly paying off.

The lines curl into dense molars and concise arabesques, like visual mantras, repeated to form airy mandalas.

This meditative adagio is the work’s longest movement, and Olafsson stretched its darkling arabesques to more than 10 minutes.

This was classic couture — in sandstone tulle, sky-like lilac, blush cloud pink and dappled pastels — with arabesque motifs on golden foliage.

There, McRae hits a perilous arabesque pose on top of a weight bench and moodily drives a Zamboni over an ice rink.