Hawkins, who died in 1994, turned away from the highly dramatic psyche-probing modern dance of Graham, to whom he was married for six years.

The tale might well serve as the scenario for a dramatic dance.

The warriors were getting ready, either for a dramatic dance of their own or for something else.

This is a dramatic dance motivated by the sea.

Open hand and weapons choreography are often accompanied by dramatic dance or programmatic music.

The new works in which he is the elder statesman are merely a continuation of his past dramatic dances without narrative.

Yet seldom are her dances literally dramatic or thematic.

There were moments that recalled the duo's gift for plotted dramatic dance.

In the end it came to a structured free-form dramatic dance, paradoxical as that seemed.

He himself calls some of his works "dramatic dances."