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"stillness" Definitions
  1. the quality of being quiet and not moving

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An exhibition at London's V&A captures the dance in life's stillness and the stillness in life's dance.
Yet "Symphonics" is also marked by more stillness than any other ballet in the repertory: upright, statuesque, contemplative stillness.
Eliot piercingly grasped the principle — obtained surely from Hindu religion — that, in dance, motion contains stillness and stillness motion.
The beeches and pines in Trees in Photography embody the dance in life's stillness and the stillness in life's dance.
Meditation is about stillness, and so the goal was to find apps that contributed to stillness while still delivering a potent VR experience.
They are the stillness at the center of the city.
I think there is something inherently creepy about this stillness.
The stillness of "Intimate Immensity" and its vast sea returned.
But as you mentioned, there are different types of stillness.
This idea of attaining stillness is crucial to Kimsooja's practice.
Their angry voices cut through the stillness of suburban Paris.
At first, the ballet seems to oppose stillness and movement.
What is perhaps most brutal about solitary is its stillness.
There's the stillness of sitting in front of a journal.
She said she loved being part of the stillness outdoors.
But learning to float required a stillness I didn't have.
So much of soccer now is movement; stillness is unusual.
Start to recognize that even in stillness, there is movement.
And stillness recurs, with dance energy radiating even in immobility.
With all the stillness, many of us yearned for distraction.
And the stillness in his music, I find extremely powerful.
Sometimes the best way to move forward is through stillness.
One element you're working with in "Hallucination" is stillness. Why?
There is little or no stillness to the pulsating paintings.
It's as if he's aiming for the kind of spiritual rapture that comes with dazed inertia, settling into a peaceful stillness because stillness is the precondition for the sudden rush that will whisk him away.
There were moments when Vecino's movements were so slow or imperceptible that she had the appearance of stillness — or, rather, the feeling of stillness, when in fact she moved constantly throughout the 70-minute performance.
And the market stillness hasn't escaped the attention of Wall Street.
Breathability, stillness, and support are all part of the company's ethos.
Stillness is then no longer an idea, but a muscular configuration.
"They communicate a sense of silence and stillness," Ms. Karasoulas said.
Elsewhere, the dance plays against the drums with stillness and calm.
One moment that we are shocked by because of its stillness.
McDormand is imposing in the role mostly because of her stillness.
The photograph illuminated a woman in stillness, surrounded by overgrown plants.
These pandemic days flow by in waves of exhilaration and stillness.
Stillness, vulnerability, and practice go into engaging with the present moment.
But even achieving this level of stillness took them 10 years.
Pause for a moment of stillness before taking another deep breath.
Throughout, Gerwig celebrates her characters both in action and in stillness.
But at night these residential areas almost become oases of stillness.
It also cannot explain how physical stillness might injure cardiac cells.
My advice to you: Stillness doesn't mean you aren't moving forward.
Exiting back into the museum hallway's stillness provides tangible sensory relief.
But Enacting Stillness illustrates how, just as John Cage's experiments in silence can sharpen our sense of sound, artistic experiments in stillness and passivity can sharpen our sense of purpose when it comes time to act.
It was in their many sudden stops amid speed that I appreciated how Kathak (once associated with the courts of the Indian north) exemplifies a central aspect of Indian dance philosophy: motion in stillness, stillness in motion.
Indian philosophy refers to stillness in motion, motion in stillness: Ms. Mohapatra shows multiple aspects of these, sometimes holding a pose firmly as she rotated on one foot, sometimes motionless like a bird hovering in the air.
I closed my eyes, sat in stillness, and took a deep breath.
Individually, each painting contains a stillness that seems poised for human activity.
That's how she knows she's sleeping on her own time. Stillness. Silence.
"In stillness they see nothing but an endless white void," Aramique says.
There's stillness and resolution, a sense of place, that piano, his mother.
Listen to Stillness In Wonderland below: (Image via Little Simz on Twitter)
Bou's photography, however, adds a dimension of stillness to this ongoing conversation.
"I wasn't comfortable sitting back, watching and waiting in stillness," writes McGraw.
But Roberts, who holds this moment with riveting stillness, eventually just nods.
But her triumphant moment is that positively reptilian stillness during the sting.
The title track, a ballad, enacts a dialogue between stillness and unrest.
Supporters stood in chilling stillness, simply staring at the screen above them.
BROADLY: Being in motion all the time, where do you find stillness?
An orchestra of twelve veers between all-out frenzy and unnerving stillness.
There's this stillness of a parent with a child asleep on them.
STILLNESS For the next two hours I sit in bed and meditate.
But not north enough to think in frigid white-outs and stillness.
You're renowned for your stillness on screen, a lack of overt expression.
The interplay between visual fields and stillness and silence is really important.
"I love emptiness, I love stillness, I love vast evacuation," she said.
The stillness is eerie, the empty spaces luxuriant and seemingly all yours.
Instead, the dance continues until the cast is exhausted, collapsed into stillness.
Sometimes all that quiet and stillness comes off as bashful, as amateurism.
Mostly, I became aware of how profoundly uncomfortable I am with stillness.
She could make the world slow down to an almost impossible stillness.
After the training, SAP employees often start meetings with a minute of stillness.
It's a practice that requires deep breathing and a search for calm stillness.
Take note of the stillness and calm, because it isn't going to last.
Horror movies and approaching storms have trained us to fear a quiet stillness.
It is a motion that brings the world back to an apprehensive stillness.
This is a stillness chamber that allows the wines to become centered, themselves.
His actors and models sit staring at the camera, iconic in their stillness.
Further aspects of "Ashphodel Meadows" are characterized by contrasts between stillness and movement.
The Stillness of Wind isn't just about nostalgia for a lost, idyllic childhood.
Acadia's rocky coast and pine and fir forests are vivid in their stillness.
From the start, above, the contrast between stillness and movement is powerfully expressive.
We find a bizarre middle ground of stillness in the face of commotion.
In the video we wanted to illustrate that pursuit of stillness within identity.
The advent of the trio had cemented the room with stillness and silence.
From the stillness around you a high glassy sound descends, like first light.
The smallness of Earth, the stillness of the moon, the limitlessness of space.
Deep in that peaceful stillness, something happened that I will never, ever forget.
There are also moments of stillness: A local union hall before anyone arrives.
And I felt in this speech, there should be a stillness to him.
His eyes, plus the stillness of his posture, do most of the work.
In its brevity and stillness it's almost a painting rather than a book.
And yet the effect was the same: the dread stillness and the anticipation.
The silence is where it's at, getting into the stillness and the silence.
As for her compositions, Abercrombie favored empty stillness — whether threatening or gently mournful.
The images have an intense surface placidity or stillness, but underneath, they roil.
Clean, for example, separates the world of movement from the world of stillness.
The piece is often referred to as "STILLNESS," though its full title is unpoetically concrete: "Merce Cunningham performs 'STILLNESS' (in three movements) to John Cage's composition 4'33" with Trevor Carlson, New York City, 28 April, 2007 (six performances; six films).
It did not move; its stillness was preparatory to a performance that never came.
Sarah Davachi has been trying to start every morning with a bit of stillness.
A low whirr breaks the stillness as a spiky dot appears on the horizon.
"I enjoy the stillness of it," he tells us about his regular moonlit practice.
By embracing stillness, you can display the persona of a confident and capable leader.
There is stillness in these photos, but not the eerie kind born of trauma.
This is a rapid-fire show, though, so the stillness is a welcome relief.
By day 15, I had grown disconcerted by the deliberate stillness of the time.
You can play The Stillness of the Wind on iOS, PC, and Nintendo Switch.
The hover and fuss of the scientists exaggerates the abiding stillness of the bodies.
I had begun to look forward to these compulsory moments of stillness and silence.
Where imprecations had once echoed and bodies had fallen, there was an uneasy stillness.
Standout performances from the entire cast, with particular emphasis on Aparicio's graceful stillness, check.
What do you recommend people do to find stillness in this kind of environment?
He has that gift you don't see often, a presence even in his stillness.
Others found comfort in the quiet, a welcome stillness ahead of a coming attack.
Some responses showed a yearning for Quaker stillness and requested details of local meetings.
A tomato is summer: gorged with sun, ridiculously voluptuous, drunk on stillness and time.
Two hours of stillness and silence with our own set of squirmy wild animals?
Fragile, as well as a sense of being contained — that is where stillness exists.
The book's surface holds stillness and movement in tension, reflecting its young protagonists' lives.
And what caused this stillness was the most banal, routine activity on my part.
But it's in stillness that Ms. Boitel finds the power to break our hearts.
One notable thing in the book is the stillness and general absence of people.
Such an eerie, skinless stillness so precisely rendered, is difficult to look away from.
As I stepped into my grandmother's empty home, the stillness and silence unsettled me.
" With a stillness that belies her self-conception as a walking disaster (stillness is one of the actor Ruth Wilson's secret weapons), Alison listens as Helen puts it plainly: "If you don't like the way men are treating you, change the story.
The spontaneity of the handheld camera contrasts brilliantly with the stillness of Eggleston's own photographs.
Drone footage of the city taken this month showed an eerie stillness across the city.
There's tiredness accompanied with abrupt stillness after a long evening of constant clicking and clacking.
This isn't a loud, bombastic comic, and there's a deep beauty in its quiet stillness.
"Her stillness in that film, I think really helped sell a lot of the horror."
Another captures an eerie moment of stillness between two children outside a block of flats.
There is his agile use of stillness that subtly brushes the surface of raw emotions.
Smith maintained an almost perfect stillness, preserving energy for his precious moments on the air.
Ms. Ferri's new quality of pathos is matched by another new gift for expressive stillness.
Make time for quiet stillness—your inner voice has a crucial message to deliver today.
The heat and stillness leveled me and I needed a break from my own mind.
Items or molecules with feminine energy are associated with tranquility, calm, stillness, unity, and patience.
In contrast to the stillness and quiet there are injections of artificial color and movement.
RH: Stillness is one of these things that I think manifests itself in different ways.
The camera follows their glances as they look to see who will betray the stillness.
It is the rarest thing in Tintoretto — in this torrent of movement, an absolute stillness.
In the moment of stillness, I found that I was curious about Mr. Chauvin's pulse.
When I ask him about this, he becomes philosophical: Everything begins with stillness, with silence.
Its instantly recognizable silhouette conveys a feeling not just of majesty, but also of stillness.
Drone footage from ABC News shows eerie stillness in the 11-million-person city's downtown.
J.C. Near stillness enfolds hints of agitation in "Polysemy" by the electronic composer William Selman.
These photographs have a sense of stillness in a time when the news moves rapidly.
He loves silence and stillness, and the image of sunlight caressing a woman's motionless face.
Claire was restlessness to my stillness, late to my early, free-floating to my rootedness.
The show's title, Enacting Stillness, hints at the paradoxical tension inherent in such a question.
The performance works that comprise Enacting Stillness depend on similar feats of modest corporeal proffering.
As the sun disappears and the moon rises, the earth is washed in a certain stillness.
The most important part of her morning is practicing the art of stillness and staying present.
The bleakness of dust and raw, red light seeps into your pores, the stillness is deafening.
Somewhere in the constant motion, you can find stillness, you just have to work for it.
There's the stillness of a baseball player staring down a pitcher waiting for the right pitch.
The Pacific Northwest evokes stillness: mossy trees, idyllic mountain ranges, and cliffside views of the sea.
I wanted to convey something totally different where you have vulnerability and stillness with each portrait.
Other times, we sat in silence, which was equally revealing, because there is power in stillness.
Stillness, silhouettes, geometries: Everything combines to make "More Forever" a new dance world of the imagination.
That minute of stillness is more exhilarating than most of the Super Bowl performances in history.
He would slowly approach cows or sheep or birds, talking softly, conversationally, calming them into stillness.
Midnight on the lake was amazing — somewhere between night and day, hovering in a platinum stillness.
Amazon respects the stillness (along with my ability to read a show description); so does Hulu.
Accept that you can never achieve true stillness: blood pulses, nerves fire electrochemical impulses, muscles twitch.
But the image is one ethereal stillness, showing a delicately pockmarked surface of white and gray.
As Lourdes reached the top of the stairs, she felt an uneasy stillness in the air.
The hustle and bustle in the Capitol's hallways faded into stillness as the hours dragged by.
Even so, Mr. Quesne conjures a gentle magic out of stillness and tenderness and unforced wonder.
In "STILLNESS," Cunningham is the soloist, performing in memory of his partner of nearly 50 years.
Like finding stillness and becoming less reactionary and being able to not lash out at people.
For a character like that, she has to command a lot of attention, with the stillness.
Moments of stillness, what Hayao Miyazaki would call "ma," are Missouri-based artist Kelsey Wroten's specialty.
I like the juxtaposition between the stillness and passing of time that a painting can evoke.
Feeling "awkward and anxious" alone at a restaurant in Mexico City, he decided stillness was the move.
If we cannot accept some discomfort, how can we imagine we will ever learn stillness and equanimity?
The filmmakers also capture the eerie stillness of a big ship's interior, even under the worst conditions.
I came here craving peace and stillness, but I've come to see that pursuing that is futile.
It wants to remain in flux, perhaps because its concepts are too fine to merit certainty's stillness.
He is constantly subjected to her sudden mood changes, her bursts of anger followed by total stillness.
As the name suggests, this is a game that expects you to learn to live with stillness.
But repeated bouts of muscular stillness could over time cause such impacts to become permanent, he said.
Stillness is actually a defense mechanism they've developed to blend in when they feel threatened by predators.
Three milky dots moving in the stillness proved to be a mother polar bear and two cubs.
Transitional spaces, like entrances and exits, caught her interest and aligned with her continuing exploration of stillness.
What is the feeling like when you've achieved stillness, and why should people try to do that?
We know that stillness is what unlocks whatever it is we want in life personally and professionally.
Retrospective No photograph or painting can hold it—the stillness of waterjust before it starts being ice.
It snowed that night, and I woke up in a room made mysterious by light and stillness.
And an aching rendition of Bryan Adams's "Heaven" performed in stillness by Becky for her young daughter.
Although Wojnarowicz liked to layer and collage, he allowed the buffalo to hang alone, in absolute stillness.
After a moment, the ice quiets, and we're left in the stillness of the mid-October dusk.
There's a stillness that comes from just reading off a screen that I don't think is healthy.
But it's also the stillness and the way the light softens the sharp angles of each room.
I passed a town called Utopia, whose boarded-up windows and stillness suggested it was anything but.
Breathing is encouraged, as are noises, and steadily groans begin to permeate the stillness of the room.
On the continent of Stillness, earthquakes and volcanoes are a constant threat as a larger catastrophe looms.
These works project the stillness of a body at rest, an effect that is both pacifying and profound.
Lately, she's been particularly drawn to the "stillness" of Renaissance paintings, and the statuesque compositions of Indian miniatures.
The goal is like Portia Modise herself—very efficient and business-like, refusing to be stifled into stillness.
And despite the numerous visitors who came and left while I was in the gallery, there was stillness.
Wood's greatest gift on Westworld is her stillness – she's able to remain inhumanly stationary while somehow exuding energy.
I try to spend a little time in the beginning of the day, about ten minutes, in stillness.
It's a confusing message, but a relatable one, balancing an impulse toward stillness with the need for action.
Her point, of course, still holds: The stillness of a photograph is confirmation that its subject isn't stable.
Gill's interest in starting the project came from the stillness of the landscape around his home in Sweden.
The of stillness of her outlines and their use of abstruse symbols recall the artwork of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
"The time of day and the stillness of the environment changes the way we see it," Plumb explains.
My God, I call out by day and You do not answer, by night—no stillness for me.
In that one, there's a sense of stillness and waiting and repetition in order to build your strength.
I'd start, but the stillness, the unsettling difference of being home and not being high would frighten me.
Damaya, Syenite and Essun live in the Stillness, a land in constant flux, prone to destructive tectonic catastrophes.
A deep stillness settled over the grove of oaks as I pressed my nose to the cold glass.
Gradually, they begin to shake off the stillness in Robert Wilson-esque slow motion, still intently staring ahead.
This time, the person looking and comprehending was the director, who respected the stillness deep within his hero.
A stillness prevails, even when Ms. McEneaney and her partner are on a bullet train speeding across China.
In some, with his long hair and with posed stillness, Iggy Pop looks like an American Indian chief.
He had a stillness, a shyness, a slightly melancholy reserve that anchored the trust of his young viewers.
He released books like "Success Through Stillness" and "The Happy Vegan," while focusing on philanthropy and political advocacy.
Amid the stillness, the hushes, the whirs, the long breaks, and then more matches, what is he thinking?
Enacting Stillness continues at The 8th Floor (17 West 17th Street, Union Square, Manhattan) through January 13, 2017.
The stillness that betrays death in 2004's Clean cold-calls down an empty stretch of Ludlow Street.
It is quiet and observational, often staying at a distance from its subjects and emphasizing stillness in its compositions.
The experience of being immersed in stillness, spatiality, and formal beauty was exactly what I needed following Jafa's film.
As time continues to blaze past us like a runaway train, poetry exists as a space of necessary stillness.
However, there's at least one designer who is speaking out and making some very necessary ripples amid the stillness.
Mr. Lang is known for music of guileless transparency and stillness: qualities that are often associated with medieval style.
Everything is brooding, tortured anti-heroes, stillness punctuated by sudden acts of violence, montage and ironically counterposed musical choices.
He makes a few appearances, at one point sitting with uncanny stillness in front of a three-paneled window.
The chilly, icy blue makes things glimmer in stillness rather than burn in the overwhelming orange of the sun.
Instead of the stillness of 2001: A Space Odyssey, we see the goofiness of Homer eating in zero gravity.
Becky MacGuire, a senior specialist at Christie's, said that "stillness" was a common theme in the trading port scenery.
I don't know, a lot of people would say the action but for me, it's the stillness, you know?
Though her album was called Stillness In Wonderland, it seemed these days Simz had little time to be still.
It's a time where we could express ourselves, but we'd rather take a moment of introspection of silence, stillness.
And of losing the conditions — silence, emptiness, stillness — that she has come to rely on in order to work.
The movie's unnerving stillness is nowhere near as disturbing as the unremorseful confessions from the former death squad leaders.
"The mirror where the stars and mountains view / the stillness of their aspect in each trace," Lord Byron wrote.
Eiko, whose own work deals vividly, sometimes mournfully, with slowness and stillness, brings out the best in her colleagues.
It's about learning how to create an internal energy that expresses the characters' emotions while still having incredible stillness.
That stillness is a trademark of Anotsu (Sota Fukushi, terrific), the story's big bad and also its most beautiful.
At the same time, what we know to be teeming with life has become its opposite, a perfect stillness.
I could never be at peace with stillness, sleeping with the lights on, the radio tuned to the news.
The film's crucial paradox is that, just like any great music performance, the film's apparent stillness nevertheless emanates tension.
But in 2010, a stone-faced Woods was met not with shouts and clapping but with an eerie stillness.
Does our modern appetite for escalation and revelation prevent us from relaxing into the surreal stillness of these scenes?
Movement and stillness both alternate and combine in the dancing itself, as do communicative expression and formally academic classicism.
Where Tony had a grounded, authoritative stillness in the pulpit, Bart was a more hyperactive speaker, caffeinated by Christ.
As the procession finished the final mile from the plaza to the cemetery, a stillness presided over the crowd.
Water pounds into my face, but as I crest the waterfall, I see a blissful moment of stillness below.
Their eyes are closed, their bodies motionless, even their adrenaline is suspended within the calcified will of their stillness.
The temple, snugly nestled into the side of a mountain, had a sense of stillness despite its central location.
Time-based video replaces painting's timeless stillness, reminding viewers that real time never stops pulling us into the future.
The Art of Stillness Program Dates: September 26–October 8, 2016 Apply by June 22 This interdisciplinary residency provides artists the opportunity to work with expert faculty whose work explores stillness and its relationship to the creative process, while also providing the time to slow down, reclaim mind space, and hone their practice.
Some, like slowness, speed, stillness and density, are fairly easy to grasp; others, like discrepancy and transmission, are more elusive.
The stillness is broken as people get up to dap, hug, and thank him for sharing some truly dark shit.
Yet the spareness also creates a stillness that I like to imagine only exists on a place like the moon.
The stillness of the morning was broken only by sizzling sounds from the kitchen, where the cook was frying parathas.
Simultaneously sparse and immersive, Valerian Dials for Trembling Hands evokes the stillness of an ocean after a shipwreck or storm.
There's a stillness to his beauty that draws you in and just enough warmth to suggest he welcomes the attention.
At once ordinary and highly charged, this moment of stillness and metamorphosis is what Tillyer evokes in an abstract painting.
But there is beauty in the winter stillness and there are people who can brave the cold and enjoy it.
Shannon, Edgerton, and Shepard all underplay their roles, imbuing their characters with an anxious stillness, even when on the run.
Seeking stress relief in the age of Trump, I read an advance copy of Strength in Stillness by Bob Roth.
The piece commands attention from the beginning, as a moment of stillness and purity is shattered by a guitar's growl.
It was a methodical, well thought out performance, where her stillness embodies the beauty and build up to the song.
The latest offering from the company, a piece entitled Closed Sydney, depicts the eerie stillness of the once lively city.
Even the surface streets seem to have paused, a warm, damp stillness as the city recalibrates from evening to night.
As he passes over sections of ants dozens at a time, they go from a teeming mass to total stillness.
Here were two examples of records whose punches were weary, patient, dystopian, abstracted, complicated, with much stillness and falsetto singing.
Yet Sebald also extracts from this self-conscious antiquarianism something unaccountable: a mysterious contemporary stillness, an otherworldliness of the present.
In moments of stillness, the only thing I could hear was the wind, and all I could see were stars.
In fact, the test results showed slightly better memory skills after a night rocking compared with a night of stillness.
Learning from Fauvism, German and Abstract Expressionism and photography, Park became a master of illuminating people in moments of stillness.
There's the stillness of when you get into one of those flow states with whatever the work you're doing is.
It is refreshing, too, to see the cast strip back the stereotypical gestures of onstage romance and aim for stillness.
Ms. Walsh has deployed these tools before (she calls stillness her "one true love"), often to the frustration of audiences.
Just as Rose was, they are inexplicably drawn to this refuge of unspoken, intimate connection and stillness in Midtown Manhattan.
Shoulders more and more slumped forward, elbows pinched in, stillness on the outside but a dark engine rotating fast inside.
Not the instructor, ME. I couldn't balance to save my life and the stillness she wanted the class to find?
While a silent curtain call might disappoint actors, the dogs' spellbound stillness is a great sign for their future handlers.
It is also why we strive to get behind the curtain of Hopper's stillness and figure out what's going on.
The moment they arrived, the temperature in the room went down, the silence and the stillness shadowing forth a chill.
His drawings exude, in unbroken but flexible lines, the momentum of a Manhattan streetscape with only brief moments of stillness.
The stillness belied the chaos of the day before, as people fled in terror before a roaring wave of destruction.
Its volume and implicit violence existed in drastic contrast with the stillness and subdued tone of the rehearsal-like choreography.
When we picked up the photos from the drugstore, I felt proud of the stillness in my eyes — the absolute focus.
Transparent can be bold and brazen and transgressive; it's when Soloway turns her gaze towards stillness, though, that she finds transcendence.
In 1991, Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, a neurodegenerative disorder causing tremors, stillness and, ultimately, the loss of motor skills.
It was A.K. Paul, Nao says, that gave her sonic clarity, like a pin on a compass finally settling into stillness.
I feel like I'm consistently trying to find movement in the moment and also capture that moment of stillness as well.
The recently released indie Stillness of Wind captures what it means to lose something that exists now only in your imagination.
It requires time and a mental stillness, the kind one has these days mainly in cars or other modes of transit.
His strategy of intensification through restraint paid off in the final pages, when the string section achieved an uncanny, hovering stillness.
Maybe they were hiding somewhere in the Park—a ridiculous notion, but he could feel their contempt radiating in the stillness.
Most tracks on the compilation seem to have similar goals, consistently forcing you to confront new details rather than embracing stillness.
Well, it makes it hard for the queens to keep their composure and stillness, which I like the shot to achieve.
And an audience was frozen into the kind of stillness that no one dares interrupt, not even with a startled gasp.
There he and Babe stand guard over the visitors center, where a live-streaming camera captures his every moment of stillness.
I think ultimately you teach stillness by example and that's a key thing that parents have to provide for their kids.
But in this score the stillness is animated internally with swirling figures, restless bits, and hushed riffs that come and go.
The music continues floating upward, growing more and more distant, until at last it dissolves into a deep and resonant stillness.
This meditation on seeing and stillness teaches mindfulness to children — and the adults who read to them — in a nonpreachy way.
Yet despite the incredible noise, and blasts of air, these planes bring to the neighborhood, Rothenberg's photographs have a surprising stillness.
"It's the way he carries himself, his stillness — you just have that feeling that you're around a strong person," Helgeland said.
And there are moments of phenomenal stillness, as when Radha sits, arms sculpturally but gently folded above her head: waiting, waiting.
Death performed with an inward stillness can be particularly poignant, as when Hamlet murmurs his final line: "The rest is silence."
Her nimble pen-and-ink illustrations capture children's loose, joyful movements and the stillness of faces marked by contemplation and grief.
She held her body tightly within its stillness as her mother's ear pressed heavy, cooling, into the flesh of her leg.
The occasional spareness of their playing and the stillness that sometimes surrounds their remarks suggest a region distinct from ordinary existence.
We can enjoy the meditative mood, but understanding its underpinnings would require more than this idyll of silence and stillness provides.
For the most part, Katherine watches, and we watch her watching, as the quiet grows louder, and the stillness grows eerier.
In this unequal world, it could be heading for class war or a brokered peace—for savagery or stillness, or both.
Here, Ms. Tayeh gets to play with subtlety and stillness, rather than the 60-second reality-TV routines of nonstop explosions.
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor, The Stillness of the Wind — the examples are numerous, and many of them are quite recent.
He loved the feeling that the water here was in some way alive, and different from the stillness of a pool.
The stillness of Hill's work contrasts with the busyness of Huffman's:  an environment of digital images, videos, projections, objects, and sound.
Tracks like the opener "Nemorum Incola" punctuate the stillness with synthetic swoons, whirling like a music box ballerina that's slowly losing momentum.
The second is fantastical but mathematically permissible: The water starts still, erupts in the middle of the night, then returns to stillness.
The stillness we sense in her work is not the equanimity of a varnished philosophy, but the equipoise of connection and loss.
And then it's gone, everything stripped away to leave only silence; the stillness of the biggest black mankind's ever stared out into.
But really, that stillness is to be expected—pretty much everything fans wanted to know was announced during that four-day stretch.
The Verge spoke to Odell about the importance of place, the role of technology in grounding us, and different types of stillness.
So pee blissfully—weirdly, there's can be a serene stillness when you have 30 seconds to not really think about anything important.
I check in regularly, spending time collecting clovers and sifting through the mail, but the stillness of the rustic cottage is unsettling.
That is why Zen practitioners sit in stillness and in silence for hours on end, releasing the thoughts that come and go.
In the late nineteen-twenties, the physiologist Walter Cannon coined the term "homeostasis"—joining together the Greek homoios (similar) and stasis (stillness).
It's stepping outside strenuous effort and creating enough stillness so that it becomes possible to contemplate and enjoy things as they are.
She catches them in moments of relative stillness, moments revealed not in tales of wild adventure but of inward conflict, indecisive contemplation.
I wanted the work to embody that, but to also oscillate between that and a meditative stillness resulting from a tactile process.
It's enforced stillness, designed to numb, and even though Offred loathes these new-world horrors, she swallows them in order to survive.
As an ethereal silence descended, Mr. Kerry cocked his head in the stillness of one of the world's last truly wild places.
I came to appreciate the stillness, broken up by the trill of birds and soft lapping of water against the wooden oars.
From Plato to Thoreau, generations of philosophers, poets and prophets have celebrated solitude, stillness, and taking time to get to know thyself.
She burns earthy cypress sticks for a bit of "stillness and joy" before bed, and then lets her body do the rest.
Even so, the jungle's stillness and the absence of heavy battle lulled us into thinking the war wasn't as bad as advertised.
But in the former, water appears unobtrusive in its stillness and placidity, while in the latter it appears as a tumultuous threat.
They have a calm, summing-up feeling, and the slight movements of the string somehow add to their sense of enveloping stillness.
As we learned in earlier volumes, the Stillness is a desperate, quasi-medieval world of death and struggle that is never still.
And at this level of stillness, our conventional wisdom about motion breaks down, as the bizarre rules of quantum mechanics kick in.
Charles M. Blow I feel as if we are being conditioned to chaos by a "president" who abhors the stillness of stability.
It's evident almost immediately when meeting him, in the easygoing stillness of his demeanor and the relaxed, unhurried inflection of his voice.
Music is muted — the grisly snap of bones and squelch of peeling flesh predominate — while the camera maintains a cool, observational stillness.
In movement he was awkward; in stillness he possessed a natural grace, remarkable van Eyck hands, a long neck worthy of Pontormo.
In many of King's works, the juxtaposition of movement and stillness plays an equally important part as that of smallness and immensity.
Each one is printed by the artist in rich black-and-white tones — a moment of stillness snatched from the chaos of life.
That's by design; in a recent interview with CNET, Sanders suggested that the original film's "stillness and quietness" wouldn't land with today's audiences.
Mr. Russell Beale can clown with the best of them, but it's his gift for introspection and stillness that exists second-to-none.
Although these artist studio series have an intense stillness, they continue his explorations into ways of examining color and form through the camera.
A simple acoustic guitar figure seeps in between the gravel-crunch of a few percussion parts, the stillness punctuated occasionally by distant gunshots.
To create a physiological template of stillness, or kindness, or focus that you can then attempt to bring back to the "real" world.
Roy DeCarava's black and white photos have a contemplative stillness about them, even as the energy of the city swirls around his subjects.
There is a magical stillness in the air at this time; savor the time you spend with the people you care about, Libra.
Worst of all was the dismal routine of scoffing down store-bought scones for sehri in the quiet stillness of my communal kitchen.
At 19203 in the morning, the Lake Shore Limited pauses in the stillness of Buffalo, the birthplace of the estimable pitcher Orel Hershiser.
There, in the shadow of an old chestnut tree, the sound of Ping-Pong games broke the stillness of a recent summer day.
He was honest enough to concede that he — and the chasing pack — had been helped by the late afternoon and early evening stillness.
Instead the tendency is to freeze, like mice under a hawk's shadow, and hope that stillness alone can save you from the talons.
There's a breathless power in the impossible angles of vaulted cathedral ceilings—a special stillness in the way afternoon light hits stained glass.
For half an hour, she and bansuri flute player Eric Fraser guided New Yorkers away from distractions and technology, towards stillness and inspiration.
For the majority of his career, Reeves's understated charm and emotional stillness felt incongruous to his level of celebrity: What's the dude's deal?
Then the mixer stopped spinning and he heard the stillness, which was soon replaced by screams and grunts and "Oh, my God"s.
PITTSBURGH — As gunfire shattered the prayerful morning stillness of the Tree of Life synagogue, Barry Werber was hiding in a darkened storage room.
There is an odd feeling to these old peeling walls and empty wooden kitchen cabinets, a stillness and silence, and I feel nervous.
Even here, in the stillness of the teacup, its shifting is too wild and too unpredictable for any to move safely within it.
The street lights seemed all but obliterated by the falling rain; tall trees in the gated park reproached her with their penitential stillness.
DAUNNO I learned a lot about stillness, about planting your feet in the ground and trying to stand up for what is right.
Accompanying the looping, atmospheric sounds were Golub's measured melodies, creating a lush soundscape that brought the room and its small audience to stillness.
Inspired by Zen meditation, they are composed mostly of simple, geometric shapes whose lines and erasures are derived from breathing, movement, and stillness.
This play" — he meant "Gary" — "seems like so much and crazy, crazy, crazy, but there are moments of total stillness in this play.
The tilt of the shape, as well as its symmetry, add a vibratory note: they are not still, despite all the stillness they embody.
What I'm calling "holds" do not involve stillness, per se, but rather muscle tension and discomfort, in some cases to the point of ecstasy.
Finally, as Perry extended his umbrella of prayer over the cabinet, the military and the president himself, Trump achieved a few seconds of stillness.
The liveliness of this scene is in contrast to the moribund stillness of Calais itself, a northern French city long down on its luck.
Her pieces move slowly and deceptively, producing an illusory stillness—a respite from the world where you can stop and think for a second.
"I grew up watching that movie, and she's so brilliant in it... I remember being very impressed with her reactions, her stillness," she said.
I recognize in Agent Cooper that coalescence of malformed time and experience: the stillness of being in a great rush while stuck in limbo.
"The desert is lovely in its restfulness — the great brooding stillness over and through everything is so full of God," she wrote in 1895.
The quietude, the unnervous stillness and implicit isolation affords bloodlust-afflicted writers with a naturally forbidding and foreboding locale to put audiences at unease.
In her wisdom and benevolence, she has done the same again for her second full-length Stillness in Wonderland, which she released on Friday.
So to me, stillness is this place we go to personally that's quite important, but also professionally since it's the key to elite performance.
None of that action makes their way into these photographs: Instead, what comes across is the stillness of these spaces, and their sinister plausibility.
The scene in which Tamara first paints Rafaela has an incandescent song, "Stillness," about the symbiotically sensual needs of a painter and her muse.
I also love the stillness and detachment of American scene painting, like the Ashcan School, Edward Hopper, Fairfield Porter, Alex Katz, and Sylvia Sleigh.
But its nine dancers feast on its every opportunity: They show the beauty of both balance and falling, jumps and floorwork, turns and stillness.
Consider these passages describing her early dance of romance with Barack Obama, when she worked within "the plush stillness" of her Chicago law firm.
Since the history of the Stillness is exceedingly complicated and each incident dense with important detail, "The Stone Sky" is not always easy reading.
They are excited, yet relaxed — this feels exactly right to them, to nestle into silky sleeping bags with chilled noses and dark and stillness.
In his chapter on red deer, perhaps the best in the book, Foster describes trying to cultivate that animal's dilatory, fearful, and observant stillness.
Concerts inside the Moab Music Festival's red rock grotto in Utah begin with an invitation to take in the stillness of the natural setting.
Maybe I just have trouble with being stillness, but in the morning, I'm ready to GO. I don't want to sit and think about anything.
In almost every instance, despite the flatness and stillness often associated with Pop painting, Drexler's saturated tones and ecstatic stylizing gave the paintings irresistible pull.
I quit my job to make games full time before I'd even released Where The Goats Are [a precursor to The Stillness of the Wind].
Eggleston's photographs possess a haunting stillness, and his use of dye transfer printing in his color work creates a sensation of immediacy and heightened reality.
These colors shift and elide one another; some seem organized into bands of competing tones as they transect and bisect the portrait's almost suffocating stillness.
The Saturday Profile HÜMMEL, Germany — IN the deep stillness of a forest in winter, the sound of footsteps on a carpet of leaves died away.
I try to take stock once a day and find a moment of stillness that I can remember because this experience flies by so quickly.
The Broken Earth trilogy is set on a massive continent called the Stillness, in a far-future Earth wracked with periodic disasters known as Seasons.
"California," premiering on Noisey today, is the latest single to come from Inverted Jenny, captures the stillness, even when Goldstein's singing through a road trip.
I don't have the calm and the stillness to just go somewhere, turn on the mic, aim it in the right way, and capture something.
I am deeply interested in personal stories of trauma, which I see as formally related to questions of movement and stillness I am dealing with.
A related gift is the space to finally be still; more than any exotic destination, stillness appears to be the elusive luxury of our age.
Pop, meanwhile, is a kind of pantheist, devoted above all to "balance"—between life and death, stillness and motion, and, one assumes, black and white.
Ahead of President Donald Trump's visit Wednesday to a stunned Las Vegas, a kind of eerie stillness settled over this usually throbbing and vibrant city.
Ominous updates from the city become another daily dread The Stillness of Wind is a testament to what great designers can achieve with very little.
The once vivid colors of the horses are now washed out in the sad stillness of death, the ghostly white pallor their only color coordination.
Mr. Hanson knew how to move a camera (he generally didn't call attention to his own prowess), but he had a particular gift for stillness.
For my next journey…my first step is going to be to let the wheel of the mind slow to stillness, and then...we'll see!
The interludes carry much of the narrative; dogs bark in the distance, women chant, bells chime, and a tense stillness sits behind the whole thing.
A young Ruscha often traveled to Oklahoma and back along Route 66, with the West passing by like negative space in motion, a moving stillness.
Each new sound seems to breathe — emerging from and receding back into the stillness — and the glint of bells, like desert plants, here and there.
As far as movement is concerned, the only compelling performer onstage is the actor André De Shields, who can simply stand and make stillness gorgeous.
The bead's stillness comes with another caveat: Aspelmeyer's team has only forced the bead into its motional ground state along one dimension, not all three.
In his color work, he sometimes accepted ambient blurs of motion to emphasize, and estrange, the stillness of a certain subject amid a street's commotion.
With his ensemble, Brian Brooks Moving Company, he continues to explore the building blocks of movement: speed, stillness and the organization of bodies in space.
Audiences watched in absolute terror as the family lived their lives in complete silence, the film's most bone-chilling moments ironically occurring in the stillness.
Dina Litovsky's photo creates a moment of stillness, and the type, which forces a reader to physically move the cover around, suggests multiple shifting dimensions.
His all-too-human ticker gave out, and this show marks the 25th anniversary of that stillness by transmitting the artist's vibrating relevance to today.
Standing in the cold at South Station in Boston last week, she took in a moment of stillness in the middle of an earthshaking personal transition.
I felt like I had to get back to who Kerry really is … I felt like I needed to create a little more stillness around me.
From the frenetic city streets to the stillness of nature, Japan just does it better and seems much more interesting than the rest of the world.
More than perhaps anything else on television, "Saul" is defined by its slow grind, an almost trademark-able weekly exercise in moments of stillness and quiet.
But those feelings quickly turned into confusion and a quiet optimism when the band released "Stillness is the Move" as the first single off Bitte Orca.
Simz had made two albums—A Curious Tale of Trials + Persons and then Stillness in Wonderland—part-inspired she says, by Britain and its seasonal nature.
I manage to find stillness just being in nature or playing with my dog or going down and playing with my little mini horses or chickens.
"I think being still is so important — that's why meditation is so great for people, because it creates a little bit of stillness in their lives."
But the police have told him not to, for fear of bringing more people looking for a stillness deeper even than the silence of the forest.
Fure's formidable orchestral score "Bound to the Bow," which was heard at last year's New York Philharmonic Biennial , follows a similar structure: first stillness, then catastrophe.
Alabaster pale and swathed in a shapeless hoodie and sweatpants, Morgan (played with unnerving stillness by Anya Taylor-Joy) is 5, but resembles a young adult.
Yet, whatever the case, Greene's Egyptian images show the same stillness of the landscape we commonly see in photographs of the eastern Mediterranean at this time.
Aware of the stillness and malleability of the air circulation in the sloping forest, Nakaya allowed the valley to shape and give life to the artwork.
He began his first book in this very house, which is surrounded by woods and stillness, while on a sabbatical from the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton.
You might not feel like the stars are guiding you at all because no answers have been given...but sometimes, stillness is exactly what you need.
I actually held my breath for a moment and just let the stillness of these words do what had to be done after this immense journey.
Plaster splashing against the artist's skin must have required her stillness as it heated and hardened, providing time for her to think from inside her sculptures.
The themes at hand are faith, violence and compassion, and Bartosik illustrates them through a mixture of extreme trembling, ecstatic dancing and moments of contemplative stillness.
From then on, it is all give and take with the initial stillness, the initial darkness, and nothing can ever be entirely unseen, unnoticed or immobile.
"It was a time of remorse, it was a time of stillness and consciousness and that's what you feel right now on the islands," Curry said.
"There is something to be said about getting away from the creature comforts and being surrounded by stillness and stars," said the hotel's owner, Hugo Pizzinini.
These jottings became lyrics for the band's biggest single, "Stillness Is the Move," in 2009, on which Coffman emulated the octave-somersaulting feats of R.&B.
It refines stillness from rhythm, silence from sound, and space from compression, a whiplash in a line running from Messiaen and Morton Feldman through Brian Eno.
In his paintings of saints, Zurbarán endows his figures with an uncanny sense of stillness, created in part by the strikingly lit folds of their attire.
In the clip, a ship full of swords sits and stews in an otherworldly ocean, conjuring terror out of its stillness and its sickly color palette.
In these, Hart examines the dichotomies of movement and stillness, contemplation and decision, and space and line, and the importance of the duality in the search.
Their new work, "Borders," is billed as a sequel and continues their interest in juxtaposing wild movement with stillness and artificial sonic landscapes against the human voice.
Their new piece, "Borders," is billed as a sequel and continues their interest in juxtaposing wild movement with stillness, and artificial sonic landscapes against the human voice.
Alessandro Roma: One foot in the world and the other in the stillness continues at z2o Sara Zanin Gallery (Via della Vetrina 21, Rome) through April 16.
But the relative stillness that came from giving myself the space to move and think has convinced me that this is something I ought to keep doing.
His work, then, is most fully celebrated and appreciated alongside the stillness of J.D. Ojeikere's portraits, Oumar Ly's monumental studies, J. Bruce-Vanderpuije's light-sculpted formal photographs.
My five senses had morphed in the last hour, and it was shocking to be hit by the stillness of the outside and the breeze of wind.
The typology of the hotel room is one of anonymity, a uniformity that gives all of these places a sense of untouchable stillness in their temporary comforts.
Set to music by Vladimir Martynov, this exploration of stillness, in which tension is used in gestural, largely unison choreography, was as overlong and sophomoric as ever.
They let us read an essay, or a stanza, and feel the silence around it — the actual, physical stillness of a body when it's deep in thought.
Its stillness is in contrast to the constant flux of the landscape around it, where waterfalls tumble down cliffs after rain, and dust storms churn the earth.
In other words, day and night are equal length today—ushering in a time of calm and stillness as the light begins to wane going into winter.
The rollout for her second album, Stillness In Wonderland, had started months ago, in early winter 2016, and promo and press carried on after the record's release.
Many of our experts tell us that finding the right cocktail of coping mechanisms is an individualized process—sometimes we'll need action and at other times, stillness.
But momentum builds once the lights turn dusky and Ms. Lafferty rolls feverishly on the floor or settles into positions that reveal the physical duress of stillness.
Stillness and movement, running and walking, joy and anguish, rushing forward and looking back, jumping high and falling splat: Your heart is brim-full while you watch.
Note the surprised stillness that overtakes her when she admits that there were certain details of her relationship with Ray that she never divulged to the police.
His flip of "Finding People" finds him doing both at once, twisting Rahbek's swooning synth pads into abstract melodies and obliterating the stillness with rim-rattling basslines.
This is true of Roxanne's music, in which crawling drones and plodding synth sequences lap and purl in unhurried ways, allowing space for reflection, stillness, and solitude.
We're not experiencing the stillness that we need to make good decisions, to be happy, and to bring our best work out from wherever it comes from.
People in Venice appear to be heeding these restrictions and staying indoors, transforming the buzzing tourist-populated city on the water into a picture of relative stillness.
Working in lovely 35-millimeter film and a studiously neutral palette, the cinematographer Chayse Irvin employs austerity and stillness like goads, daring the audience to look away.
Billed as a "liturgical dance" for St. Mark's Church, the work juxtaposes a kind of physical severity with stillness in its attempt to evoke and transcend death.
Seven miles long and five miles wide, it is bikeable, and this is the best way to appreciate the stillness here, the weight of time and history.
This is a landscape of immense stillness where ancient handprints left on red rock walls are a reminder of who came before us and who will follow.
The pictorial beauty of "The Assassin" — which was shot on 35-millimeter film — is astonishing, as is Hou's narrative approach, his use of stillness, silence and ellipses.
That extended staring in stillness, with baleful or at least somber faces, is something they've done many times before in this 80-minute work, usually in silence.
And while there's plenty of humor, one moment stands out for its starkness: The dancers, on their hands and knees, find stillness, and the room falls silent.
As both a performer and a maker of dances, Mr. Louis was notable for his quick directional shifts, tiny darting gestures and unexpected contrasts between rigidity and stillness.
The highlight was an expansive yet poised, open-eyed performance of the dusky Composition No. 56, which pivots from jumbles of activity to softly droning, continuously mutating stillness.
Doom-laden drones collide with the gentle strains of organic instrumentation—there's moments of peace, but often that stillness will be destroyed by fiery thickets of gnarled noise.
In the stillness of the morning, she gasps for breath but eggs herself on to run faster, take longer strides and ignore the thorns piercing her bare feet.
That scene on the bridge has some beautiful long shots of Janine, a lone red figure standing on the edge of the world surrounded by an icy stillness.
Even as the synth lines still rise and fall hopefully, there's a sense that Tortoroli's bursting with energy, a sense of action arising from those years of stillness.
Despite the different themes at hand, both video pieces have an inherent stillness in them; the characters and landscapes barely move, often with an air of heavy contemplation.
With the GoPro, it was the first time the viewer could feel like they were inside the waves and could feel the euphoria and stillness the surfer felt.
Having previously teased listeners with two tracks taken from the record—"Poison Ivy" and "Picture Perfect"—Simz has come good and released Stillness In Wonderland in full today.
Their noise washes through the stillness and silence of Celia's flat, which is unchanged — other than by decay — since Lucian Freud bought it for her 224 years ago.
It evokes the smell of grass and getting sprayed by a sprinkler system, but it's also music that can soundtrack stillness, and the serenity of a warm day.
Atkinson will likely never fully abandon the stress of her earliest work, but this side of her work lands easier now when its surrounded by moments of stillness.
As the sun rises over the plains of the ancient city of Bagan, it bathes the more than 2000,3.53 temples that punctuate the landscape in an otherworldly stillness.
The choreography, stuttering and sensual, disrupts full-bodied runs and spins with stillness where we wait for Ms. Hamilton's blood and breath to settle back into her body.
Some New Yorkers ventured out from isolation, alone or in twos or threes, for a peek around, filling the stillness with their own narrations on a city's mood.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads One of the striking features of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968) is its stillness.
The interiors of the little homes were dark, cozy, plain, and there was a Sunday-morning stillness that took me back to the unhurried corners of the world.
Mr. LaPierre evidently noticed, prompting him to comment on the stillness in the hall, which he wrote off as fear over the government oppression he warned was coming.
Jemisin's hubristic high-tech civilization, which brought about its own doom and birthed the brutal and seemingly inescapable pattern of life in the Stillness, is not quite ours.
There was a stillness, a permanent air of afternoon and an interior that was magically cooler and airier than the exterior it felt so much at peace with.
William Eggleston's photographs of Graceland—a portrait of Elvis through his artifacts—were an inspiration for the Taylor portfolio, and the pictures share a feeling of haunted stillness.
Mr. Nadeau counts himself lucky, though — down the road, an eerie stillness has enveloped a mall where most of the stores closed after Canadians stopped coming to shop.
He's working within a recognizable horror-film framework here (the darkness, the stillness), so it's not surprising when a car abruptly pulls up and begins tailing the man.
Some mantises chase down their prey, but many are consummate ambush artists, waiting with Zen stillness in the grass or among flowers for the right moment to strike.
I can sense when the stillness of the street is a precursor to danger, like the moment before a storm hits and the air adopts a menacing tranquillity.
His paintings give quiet moments of everyday life an Egyptian stillness; they are fixed in an eternal present, shorn of superfluous detail, rendered as if carved in stone.
The stillness of her minimal interventions evokes the impending danger of an aftershock or the menacing silence of a minefield, pulling visitors into the eye of the storm.
Nearly every image of Coretta Scott King since her husband's death has seemed suffused with preternatural stillness, her face fixed with the brave solitude of timeless interior bereavement.
" I tapped one that said "Traveling" and up came options like "Connecting with stillness in a busy place" and "A unique meditation for when you're on a plane.
"Stillness might become more available to them, when that might not have been accessible during the early stages of trauma, when sitting still can be quite uncomfortable," she says.
Void of course moons are a time for stillness — if you try to do anything too grand or ambitious during one of these periods, your efforts may be wasted.
But in the stillness of the short, we only get to see the beautiful imagery of a spaceship leaving Earth, so we have to fill in the blanks ourselves.
Kimsooja's practice, which emphasizes stillness of mind and the similarities between different cultures, is an attempt to offer some resolution in these times of war, paranoia, fear, and discrimination.
But the struggles in Stillness of Wind are all elemental, like overcoming the obstacle of your own slow-moving old bones or not having enough hours in the daylight.
Though the capacity of the resort is about 400 guests and it was 98 percent full, according to Ms. Fletcher, all we felt was a stillness in the air.
Where Audubon's parrots gyrate and foreshorten themselves—one can almost hear them chattering as they press their beaks toward the picture plane—Lear's are sphinxlike in their mysterious stillness.
According to the performances on Monday, Graham's "Heretic" (we saw an excerpt from this 1929 all-female dance) featured dance moving through silence and music playing through choreographic stillness.
She is famous for moving very slowly, and slowness and stillness are still crucial aspects of her wraithlike persona, imparting the sense that she is there and not there.
First Performance of STILLNESS (In Three Movements) to John Cage's Composition 4'33" with Trevor Carlson, New York City, 28 April 2007," capturing one of the late choreographer's last performances.
It's only here, just off I-94, that the stillness is disturbed by the downshifting diesel engines and hissing air brakes of 18-wheelers pulling into the weigh station.
But there's a growing belief among Mepkin's brothers that certain elements of the Trappist tradition — its cultivation of mindfulness, stillness and inward exploration — are increasingly relevant to today's youth.
Other moments of stillness occur as Radha looks toward Krishna — always on the same stage diagonal, to show he is approaching her threshold by way of a known path.
Deathly two-dimensional, the painting shows Cixi in extreme stillness; pearls cascade down her neckline, and on her hands are green press-on fingernails as long as eagles' talons.
Gaesser says that "the physical and mental arousal" that occurs when people end their seated stillness and stroll, pedal or stand up improves attention, memory and other cognitive skills.
Resting her chin on the back of her hand, Wu watched with coiled stillness, her only movements the lines of pleasure and surprise that occasionally registered on her forehead.
Ms. Tanowitz, who smartly and thoughtfully distills ballet technique into fresh, inventive forms, is well poised to illustrate Eliot's ideas on space, movement and stillness with elegance and clarity.
He's a rare dancer, whose big, beautiful legs bring endless texture and plush to jumps; and he's a fine actor, wonderful in tiny moments of stillness or powerful gestures.
Known as orogenes, their powers make them feared even as they tame the destructive natural disasters that occur regularly on the planet Stillness — and mark their children as well.
Gabe Fazio's Simon the Zealot is one of these, occupying the witness stand with such intensity and stillness that the whole room shrinks to his little part of it.
She still recalls the stricken way Sergeant Carter, a childhood friend who is now a captain, looked at her and the stillness of the room before her mother's cries.
Yet the scene is one of utmost stillness: as the surgeon makes his cut, a monk gingerly supports the patient and an assistant stands by with scissors and gauze.
Their images' stillness, a by-product of necessarily long exposure times, belies the propulsion of a nation racing toward a future it was convinced it could fashion to its will.
Ironically evident in both Riepenhoff's new take on primitive photography methods and Apple's gimmicky update is both an aversion to photographic stillness and a compulsion to time-stamp each moment.
What she does see is the changing light of this swiftly turning world, and those places of seeming stillness where we might walk, not noting what is beneath our feet.
Over time, I've worked out what I need to achieve stillness of mind, which boils down to good sleep, exercise, and long conversations in broad daylight—all that boring stuff.
The land, the architecture and the stillness, she said, helped make her work possible, as did the hangarlike studio, staffed with local workmen, that she was able to erect nearby.
Click here to view original GIFFall is probably the most picturesque season but there's always something beautiful about seeing the stillness of winter give way to the color of spring.
The human race is exhausting itself with noise and longs for its opposite—whether in the wilds, on the wide ocean or in some retreat dedicated to stillness and concentration.
He was capable of performances full of stillness and awe, suggesting a kind of physical movement through musical phrases, as on the unaccompanied "Pemmican" (from the 1981 live recording "Garden").
Super Deluxe documented a sex doll shop in the video below and seeing the stillness inside (and the soullessness of all those body parts) gets totally creepy after a while.
Through seeming stillness, she showed her supple strength; moments later, her fingers pricked at the air, her wrists swirled, and eventually that motion rippled, like waves, throughout her small frame.
But during the first week of the tournament this year, Asderaki-Moore and other umpires have needed to manage even lower-stakes matches with repeated requests for silence and stillness.
At the end of our meal, we closed our eyes and meditated, focused on our breathing, on the passage of air over our upper lips, on the stillness within ourselves.
Gazing out at the endless blue-green of the sea, I felt an utter stillness and calm that I imagined Capote, too, must have felt looking out onto the water.
But, again, making async for eight months, looking at Tarkovsky and Bresson, I was interested in the stillness and their attempts to get rid of the ancient methods of theater.
Two of them were New York premieres: Ambrose Akinmusire's "a promise in the stillness" (2016), with an earthy vocalise by the soprano Estelí Gomez, and Tigran Hamasyan's "Ser Aravote" (2017).
The women in his movies are drawn to him as if there's a hidden stillness that they need to reach, like finding a pond in the middle of a forest.
My brothers and I ran out of the house into the cold stillness of the night, jumped on our bikes and raced through the town's streets toward the new house.
This and the plot's stillness — days pile up, but many of the novel's "events" are Shmuel's realizations — make reading "Judas" feel a bit like reading Thomas Bernhard without the misanthropy.
As "Airs" (1978, to Handel items) started the season on Tuesday, it so gorgeously contrasted stillness, walking and running — all so lusciously textured — that tears of wonder filled my eyes.
From inside this stillness, the sound of a gong rang out like a bright explosion, followed by waves of amber overtones that seemed to dance with each other in space.
Her dark palette and the stillness of the figures gives her work a sense of timelessness that has fast-tracked them into contemporary art history: The work already looks timeworn.
There, the filmmakers are greeted by a couple of pylons partially blocking the way forward, one or two parked cars and an atmosphere of stillness topped with confusion and dread.
The Mannequin Challenge took off this month, driving groups of humans large and small (the groups, and the humans), famous and non, to pose in absolute stillness for a short video.
Her mixture of physical awkwardness and confidence, her haunting inhumanity and the film's stillness around her, all strongly recall Ana Lily Amirpour's 2014 debut A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.
"Evensong." premiering here today, appends these distant moans to a simple piano figure, which ultimately billows into a distant organ drone, finding stillness somewhere in the midst of its meandering movements.
It doesn't need to be anything more than what it is: a deep dive into requiescence that lasts just long enough for the outside world to slow to a silent stillness.
But she also takes advantage of the early morning stillness: "I like to get up and have a cup of coffee and peace of mind before the day starts," she says.
"Stillness" was the first time Dirty Projectors moved outside of their experimental indie rock territory, and it's a sound Longstreth would rely heavily on for his 2017 solo release, Dirty Projectors.
The energy of his compositions counters the stillness of his earlier ink drawings, the lines full of the potential for movement as if they are scenes in a stop-motion animation.
Moereels's photos capture moments of stillness in these fast-paced cities: a voyeurism that tends toward the tender nature of everyday life on the streets of the Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
The slow movement of the First achieves a hypnotic stillness, as the brass section repeatedly unfurls a stately chorale alongside a varied, kaleidoscopic accompaniment that includes African drums and cathedral chimes.
Her Hugo Award-winning Broken Earth books feature a supercontinent called the Stillness that is anything but—the very land is a geologic time bomb, ravaged by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
If there was an abrupt stillness, or if my grandmother turned to stare out the other window to avoid the ground that held her children, I missed that flinch in her.
In "Staged" (approximately 1:00), part of the Crossing the Line Festival, Ms. Hassabi's four dancers embrace stillness and sculpture, creating a quiet counterpoint to the impatience of the outside world.
The abstract frames of Shulman's Fast Forward exhibition at the White Noise Gallery in Rome marry the intricate and muddy character of an expressionist painting with the stillness of a photograph.
It abounds in dramatic situations without telling stories: it builds sculptural groupings, it contrasts highs (dancers held high overhead) and lows (others supine on the floor), and sets speed beside stillness.
Next to it, is a moment of absolute stillness: Romare Bearden's 1970 masterpiece, "Patchwork Quilt," with its nude foulard-wearing Nubian, stiff as an Egyptian sculpture and, in this, majestically untouchable.
" Mr. Sietzen had just completed a fiercely athletic rendition of "Rebonds" by Iannis Xenakis and was composing himself for the crystalline stillness of Arvo Pärt's "Variations for the Healing of Arinushka.
In the photographs, we don't know if the pose of a subject is part of "playing sick," or a moment of stillness as she waits for a medical student to arrive.
" He added that it can be "meditative" with "an almost Zen-like winter stillness where all you hear is your breath and the sound of the skis sliding on the snow.
Paradoxically, she reaches stillness only when she's in a position of maximum tension and travail, sitting with legs raised and exposed: Next, she inverts that position into its upside-down opposite.
Here's an example of what one composer wrote as he listened to his own classical piece, "Become Desert": From the stillness around you a high glassy sound descends, like first light.
At the end, while the word "om" sounded, she moved seamlessly from one sustained position to another, finally achieving a stillness that seemed the perfect image of tranquil acceptance and meditation.
The giveaway that children have a sliver of the commitment required for the arduous path of a dance career reveals itself, funnily enough, not in their movement but in their stillness.
When something huge explodes and all the pieces are landing and you have that moment of stillness where you don't know what to do next — that's the moment that she's in.
My overall impression from the visit was of something out of a Thomas Mann novel: faded grandeur and an air of antique stillness, overseen by a wizened and mildly vexed aristo.
Thanks to Flasher's upbeat tranquility, their stillness through motion, this album integrates effortlessly into whatever context you'd like: willing to recede into the background, glad to rock at high volume too.
Mr. Borrero was standing on his doorstep late on Monday morning, gazing out at the snowy stillness of his block, now a long stretch of undulating whiteness more than two feet deep.
Not in the sense of accepting less, but the way houses settle into their foundation: creaking, shifting, and sinking into a stillness that's a little less dynamic, but a lot more solid.
Tall Lionel in that same charcoal suit, shiny at ass and elbow, working the plastic bins like a hunting heron: perfect stillness, the stab down snatch up of a cloth-bound volume.
In the stillness and darkness between lives, I feel the unsteadiness and trepidation that comes with the knowledge that, in all likelihood, I will open my eyes to a life of slaughter.
Dizzy pianos, spiderwebs of strings, distant chimes, and found sound samples all swirl around one another to find stillness in movement and moments of warmth in the bluster of these frigid passages.
But Peter Morgan, the creator of "The Crown," said in an interview that Menzies had "a real stillness, maturity and dignity" that everyone had felt was perfect for the role of Philip.
Like hair braiding or nail painting, ear candling is a ritual that forces a stillness, a momentary presence of mind that can elude friendships for weeks, if not months, at a time.
She finds wind a useful way to think about the movement of the camera — sometimes moving in a slow and steady breeze, other times a stillness that shifts into a fast rush.
You'll learn all this and more on Green-Wood's Twilight Tour, which surveys the cemetery's grandest grave markers and the New Yorkers who lie beneath them, all in the stillness of dusk.
"NY in the Snow: A Magical Vision of New York City" (Ilex) captures the best of the season — a briefly white blanket that imposes an eerie stillness — without the shoveling or sloshing.
" Mr. Lester, writing about the collaboration, said, "Eliot admired dance for its abstraction, and for the tensions it can create between stillness and movement, the ephemeral and the eternal, past and present.
The secular, mote-filled stillness, the diffuse light and serenity, the feeling of being exposed; all these lend the house something of the character of a shrine or a sanctum — an ashram.
At the end of your dance practice consider taking some time for seated meditation or lying down to rest, noticing the stillness after the movement, and observing the benefits of your practice.
Quick shifts of direction and geometric patterning dominate this first section; Ms. Childs's characteristic use of stillness and rapid movement for alternating groups keeps the visual field utterly clear and spatially surprising.
The story couldn't be simpler, and the opera deepens not through the complexity of the plot, but from the emotional weight of living with these characters in a kind of contemplative stillness.
The combination of yoga (to wring out the body's toxins) and meditation (to flood the mind with stillness) felt infinitely more organic than Israel's gathering — the focus was actually on the body.
Her pace is as moderate and steady as a ticking clock, whereas Mr. Naharin loves extreme slowness, a resistance to the flow of time that he follows with acceleration and sudden stillness.
During a duet for Adrian Danchig-Waring and Miriam Miller, the music drops out as they drop to the ground, finding stillness in silence for longer than feels normal on this stage.
Her show has a certain stillness — a stark contrast to the gallery rooms next door, where the finishing touches of Jonathan Anderson's curatorial debut, "Disobedient Bodies," are being put precisely into place.
But many of these experiments have involved somewhat exaggerated behaviors, such as absolute stillness while people sat, with no wriggling or fidgeting, and walking about or performing chores during the upright portions.
Neck bedecked with a bundle of balloons, Kay opened in stillness that gave way to incremental motion, animated by a subtle internal pulse: a toe creeping along the ground, a wrist flexing.
At a time when the liberal and leftist presses are warning about the dangers of our President-elect's autocratic tendencies, performative stillness may seem a Cagean luxury we can no longer afford.
Opening those boxes in the stillness of the Ahmanson Reading Room and noisily extracting spiral-bound notebooks from manila envelopes, I envisioned an essay on Butler and her relationship with greater Los Angeles.
"Music from singing bowls help calm the brain and relax the body so the stillness of the present moment can creep in; that's where you'll find pure consciousness for meditation success," she says.
But it was lovely to be part of a large group sitting together in stillness, to have our minds uncluttered, to come to the piece emotionally but also with a sharpness of thought.
" While doing a residency at Abron's Art Center in Manhattan in 2013, Ettun wrote a mass email with a proposition: "Who's interested in researching movement and stillness with me on a weekly basis?
The complete stillness of the paintings fills the work with a depth of feeling few artists are able attain, particularly while working under the constraints of exactitude that his aesthetic demands of him.
B PLUS Little Simz: Stillness in Wonderland (Age 101) Representing for her smart, up-and-coming, insecure self with a loose "concept" meant to spark conscious rap in the U.K., an elusive goal.
" By the end of the poem, he has settled on a version of a sentence that the reader has seen him struggle to get right: "We watched four deer in stillness walking there.
In writing, Springsteen tells us as much about himself as he knows, but the stillness of the page confines him in ways that a stage and lights and a loving audience do not.
But 20 years later, I had the same strong urge to spend an extended time in silence and find a deep center of stillness within me after my mother's untimely death from cancer.
As a solo artist, Michael Vallera makes music that often luxuriates in stillness and quietude, which is kind of a funny thing because he doesn't really seem to sit still all that much.
Even as Lawrence sings sometimes—as on the the golden-hour refractions of "Spanish House"—your ear can be more drawn to Deebank's gleaming leads, which flutter with speedy stillness in the margins.
"Cloudbusting" has bookended my summers: it has been there during a glorious 5AM sunrise, as pink light melted through my window, and for total stillness at the height of a sweaty, sleepless night.
And in those long, vacant hours, free of clutter and busyness and traditional validation, we will have to learn how to sit with ourselves and discover the glory and meaning in that stillness.
But in its uncompromising use of stillness, slowness and repetition, it distills the endlessness of the dancer's quest, which may, after all, be inexplicable to the public, known only to the dancer herself.
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The cemetery, which was depicted in John Berendt's "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," imparts a sense of sad, haunted stillness with its many decaying monuments and trees weeping with moss.
It's a world that ends, in his telling, with both a bang and a whimper: apocalyptic brass chords alternating with a hushed stillness, off which rises a mist of cimbalom and suspended cymbal.
Just as Ms. Martin talks about the horizontal line, Mr. Ratmansky, with hypnotizing patterns and moments of stillness, choreographs not just bodies but vibrations that allow the stage to pulsate rhythmically and sculpturally.
The others, Amanda Hunt and Katie Dean — with their inanimate stillness they seem half-human, half-mannequin — are arranged on two sides of an L-shaped platform that surrounds part of the stage.
In Mr. Hernández's grave performance, the emotionally reserved Mostro refuses to engage in the theatrics Jeison wants to invoke, retaining a rocklike stillness and stoicism despite the storms threatening to break around him.
A solo for the dancer Julie McMillan, the work takes inspiration from Buddhist iconography and Maurice Sendak illustrations, among other sources, reflecting on grief, loss and solitude through a precise use of stillness.
The scenes are ordinary enough — intersections in East London with people going about their normal business — but there's a tranced stillness about them: a feeling of being in some kind of fugue state.
With just their eyes looking back on us, there was a stillness and silence in those faces that created a space to think about the grand, affecting power music can have on us.
"I could think of nothing more perfect for inspiring emotion than creating replicas of classic masterpieces with the purity and stillness of a fresh newborn as the focus," Walden told Mashable in an email.
So I would say it's important to know when to rest and also important to know when to be in this second state of stillness where you're shrewdly observing the situation from the outside.
Their joyous stillness seemed to perfume the room, so that even when experiencing fierce pains in his thighs and ankles, Alan was able to cling to their composure and sit through to the end.
At this point in the Mannequin Challenge's long and storied existence, we've encountered plenty of awe-inspiring feats of stillness — and we're certainly growing tired of the stunt just as much as you are.
While the monumental projections engulf the visitor in a light show of nice colors, the animated projections distort the proportions of the paintings and the animation implies that their quiet stillness is somehow insufficient.
Adding to the stillness is a collection of abandoned barracks, built a century ago for American troops who chased after the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa after he attacked the New Mexico town of Columbus.
Another study used ultrasound imaging to discover that the flux in methadone serum levels caused fetal restlessness before dosing, and stillness a few hours after dosing—symptoms that were palpable in my late pregnancy.
Thanks in part, I'm sure, to the subtle intellectualism of the show's early period and partly because of the curation, Scenic_Simpsons evokes the silently screaming stillness of Todd Haynes's Safe, or Terrence Malick's Badlands.
It explored race and class and identity, reflecting on stillness and love as she often liked to do, and came with a cookbook detailing her favorite meals (we'll get to that in a bit).
" Sophie Labbé, the perfumer behind the Paris-based brand, captured the stillness of the steam-filled moment with a "contrast between the bitter and creamy notes that you really feel when drinking a matcha.
Each of these photographers — and some three dozen others scattered across the globe — were charged with the same task: to capture the vast stillness that has fallen over the world during the coronavirus pandemic.
"Healing" hides motion behind stillness: while drums and high harp(-ish) strings plunk at double time, a stately violin swells calmly until, finally, the sound of wind drowns out the rest of the song.
This stillness is different from anything you've ever perceived—overlooking that lake in the mountains, sitting in a sound-proofed studio, or even just staring at your laptop as it rests on the table.
As the staid professional tours continue mostly to embrace tradition, expecting funereal silence and statue-like stillness from spectators while a player executes a shot, the Long Drive World Series embraces quite the opposite.
We need to feel trapped along with Medea, who fantasizes about being a bird, but a stillness in space calls for other motion, and subtler music, which Yew's use of his actors never offers.
"As always, the new moon is a time when we can sit with the shadows, with ourselves and with our stillness," explains Gabriela Herstik, author of Inner Witch: A Modern Guide to the Ancient Craft.
If the brain can give off chemical rewards essentially for waiting, my nigh-compulsive obsession with this stuff makes a little more sense, but in 2018, I think anyone can understand the appeal of stillness.
NYC-based producer SADAF has shared an uneasily idyllic video for her single "Stillness," which pairs the song's foundational interplay between irruption and suture with a disorienting visual journey through what many would consider paradise.
This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. Little Simz is one of the best rappers currently working, and this morning she has made a very welcome return with her second studio album, Stillness In Wonderland.
Growing up, Miyagi had a great interest in rakugo , or "fallen words," a form of theatre where a single actor sits more or less in stillness and tells a comic story, sometimes with sentimental overtones.
A few cars crawled down the wide boulevards off the beach, but there was a stillness to the deliriously tacky tableau that is Panama City Beach: No lines at the Ripley's Believe It Or Not.
His "there is no one, not even the wind" comes directly from his experience of the "space and solitude, the stillness and light of the desert," as he writes in a preface to the work.
Overall, the work in Enacting Stillness suggests that, contrary to some of the grander claims made about art's political efficacy, most art intervenes in the world in a more limited, but no less essential, way.
As I was reading, I couldn't stop thinking about how the choreographer George Balanchine distinguished between two kinds of stillness: that of a cat sitting there and that of a cat sitting there ready to pounce.
Seeing the world in infrared isn't exactly new, but the odd colors of the palm trees mixed with the stillness of the people and the total randomness of the Strip makes the effect seem especially eerie.
Priestly cradles long, freshly harvested stalks in her arms, her stillness and poise harmonizing with the unfiltered sunlight against her face, illuminating her work clothes and spilling all over the sugar cane crop towering behind her.
In those old-school games there was an alchemy to the designer's attention to detail and the unsettling stillness of those levels, long before the days of mission control or nonplayer characters talking you through everything.
Save for the gentle hum of an empty house and the warm crackle of a fireplace, Jodie and her mother are the only people present, and the domestic scene takes on a sense of cozy stillness.
With her preternatural stillness and sculptured hauteur, Ms. Swinton has always looked ready for her close-up with D. W. Griffith; few contemporary movie actresses can hold you with their gaze as effortlessly as she does.
Petrounias, showing off his bulging biceps and the Olympic rings tattooed on his upper back, delivered a routine that combined moments of perfect stillness with a rapid series of somersaults, his body unfurling like a ribbon.
It's so hard to describe my own POV, but I feel good in photographing moments of stillness and flux, while demonstrating an ease and fluidity that's comforting and nostalgic, with vibrancy that's both modern and timeless.
For me, in silence, I feel a stillness in my body, an awareness of my movements and, as noise-induced anxiety switches off, my appreciation for the visual beauty of the world around me switches on.
The resulting images featured "figures that are isolated in their stillness in the middle of a kind of implied narrative," as Li put it — a kind of perfect complement to the story line behind Takahashi's collection.
The moment is shocking, and heartbreaking, too, as we watch a stricken Hally absorb the enormity of what he has done: Mr. Robbins's face grows ashen, and he sits in his chair with a deathlike stillness.
Orpheus begins in grieving stillness, and things don't get much more lively after that, except in the kicking of the Furies and the Bacchantes who kill Orpheus, some of the silliest bits that Balanchine ever made.
Stillness in Wonderland will be Simz' second project this year, following January's AGE 101: DROP X. To celebrate its imminent release, she has shared a new song, the lush, guitar-led "Poison Ivy," featuring London artist Tilla.
There's a stillness in the air, and if you quiet your mind (and your mouth), you'll see through to the truth of the situation, instead of skimming the surface in your impatience and feverish need for control.
He wanted to catch the kind of "measured stillness" of Yasujirō Ozu's film "Tokyo Story," which he had recently screened at the StudioFilmClub, a cinematheque that he and the Trinidadian artist Che Lovelace had founded in 2003.
For the aesthetic changes that we had which found place and stillness and opacity as values for first-person games, and for the fact that profoundly talented designers made those work as well as they have before.
On "Slug," she turns spotting a slug in her garden into a meditation on her own feeling of stillness; on the standout "Thinning" (below), she makes losing weight due to illness a metaphor for her emotional state.
Yet the extended duration of this particular take — over 20 minutes, more than twice as long as some recorded versions — allowed the swinging microphones' gradual move toward stillness to produce sustained, smearing roars, reminiscent of drone metal.
The earliest painting in the show is "The Prince," 1970, a half-length portrait of a personage with the stillness — and the opulent outfit — of a sitter in a portrait by the 21962th-century Mannerist Agnolo Bronzino.
The value Shoukair has managed to imbue in her elements — light, graceful movement, silence, stillness, and even natural detritus that sifts in through the windows and gathers on the scrim — is profound and stirring in its simplicity.
But when the cameras are off and the day's rallies are over, the young survivors of the massacre struggle with the loss of their friends and educators, and the nightmares that flood back in moments of stillness.
Wayne Muller, the author of "Sabbath," has written about how cultures throughout history have recognized the importance of stillness and rejuvenation: The creation of the world was complete after God rested on the seventh day, not before.
For Christmas Eve—once the wrapping is done, the turkey timetable worked out, the door locked for the late-night journey to church—brings with it an enveloping quiet that seems closest to the stillness of snow.
Here, as in earlier in "The Matter" too, Mr. Gordon's work resembles Ms. Hay's (and, before that, both Merce Cunningham's and the classical dance forms of India) in its fascination with the connections between stillness and movement.
These poets' directness suits their media, at their best disrupting never-ending streams of gossip, selfies and opinion-mongering with stark emotional clearings that aren't entirely unlike the mental stillness and "othering" fostered by poetry's traditional techniques.
Like Rike, you settle into the luxurious peacefulness, a stillness augmented by the water's rhythmic splashes, her bustling movements and the boat's gentle cacophony — the flap of the sails, the whir of the winch, assorted pleasant creaks.
Carlos Martiel's October 19th performance, "Maze," part of an extensive program of original performances presented in conjunction with Enacting Stillness, illustrates the limitations of art as political critique and the power of art as indirect political experience.
These poets' directness suits their media, at their best disrupting never-ending streams of gossip, selfies and opinion-mongering with stark emotional clearings that aren't entirely unlike the mental stillness and "othering" fostered by poetry's traditional techniques.
So here we are, amidst Portugal's mannequin challenge, coming into full recognition that Ronaldo—perfect in his stillness, and taking a stance of a mid-fabrication host in HBO's "Westworld"—has completed his own kind of reverse singularity.
The narrative paintings are good for a chortle, but the meditative images create an echoing stillness in the viewer, as if they would facilitate some sort of psychotherapeutic self-treatment, that might also include holding a drowsy cat.
The photographs can resemble casual snapshots, such as a group of people lounging on the tombs in Greyfriar's Churchyard, yet each required careful planning, composition, lugging of delicate and heavy equipment, and the patient stillness of the sitters.
Whether solo or in collaboration with Jon Porras as Barn Owl, the New York-based composer has used a host of electronic equipment and digital processing tools to make productions that are harrowing in their stillness and simplicity.
There's so much energy on the stage, there are so many things we're doing day in and day out, and I needed something there that felt still and calm, and gardening gives me that stillness and that calmness.
Twitchell will start with the shadows, then Ruscha's elbows will appear to rest on the building next door, and eventually his eyes will take shape to contemplate a city that both artists use to find context in stillness.
Duncan's choreography is deceptive: It seems like a barefoot breeze in chiffon, but is full of contrasts and intricate feats of coordination; passages of speed and stillness; and dancing that lives on the edge of floating and collapsing.
Though we don't see that — it is described by shocked onlookers — a few seconds of the ballet's prelude are beautifully re-created, from the odd stillness of Nijinsky's first poses to the pert little tail on his tights.
Greatly aided by her cinematographer, Noah Greenberg (shooting in Super 16 millimeter), and her sound designer, Jeffery Alan Jones, she uses restless tracking shots, hectic cityscapes, ambient noise and sequences of prolonged stillness to conjure unease and dread.
Sara Mearns, the try-everything New York City Ballet star, struggled valiantly to discover the Cunningham principle of stillness in motion; unfocused at first, she seemed to find a new center deeper within herself each time she reappeared.
I used to sit up nights watching him as he studied the crossword, that sustained stillness and then the flash of a grin whenever he decoded a resistant clue, the pen punctuating the air like a triumphant baton.
Over the course of the three novels (The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, and The Stone Sky), Jemisin introduced readers to the Stillness, a far-future Earth where the planet experiences catastrophic, civilization-ending disasters known as Seasons.
The directors, Leonor Caraballo and Matteo Norzi, film the outpost and its wild (and increasingly despoiled) surroundings with an ecstatic stillness, and they capture the medicinally induced hallucinations with a visual imagination of rare specificity and fury. ♦
The sculpture that, along with a few tense drawings of interior scenes, constitutes Dan Herschlein's haunting, tightly-focused new show, "The Stillness of Eddies" at 2393 Henry, is visible from the street — or at least, its installation is.
As part of Ice Theater's City Skate Concert Series at the rink at Rockefeller Center, Richburg will explore the black body in a premiere, set to music by Nicholas Britell, that delves into aspects of momentum and stillness.
As promised, Make Me Know You Sweet generally tends more toward murky abstraction, embracing the sturdy stillness of long-held synthesizer notes and scratchy samples that circle one another and mark the passage of time like tree rings.
Brigman also wrote poetry, and the images of her landscapes — the lone lunging tree, the circling gull, and the unclaimed mountain peak — appear in her book of poetry Song of a Pagan to invoke both stillness and struggle.
Soak in the stillness before the trail becomes inundated with annoyingly pert workout types and, without having to stop and check your FitBit, take in views of the city that gave you your sweaty, spicy, bighearted, big drinking night.
It is typically practiced for 20 minutes, two times a day, according to Bob Roth, author of "Strength in Stillness: The Power of Transcendental Meditation," who Dalio cites as the best teacher and expert he knows on the subject.
There's some irony in the fact that "Stillness," a love song about maturing and growing up, is sung by Coffman, who served as inspiration for the sonically similar Dirty Projectors after her and Longstreth went through a messy breakup.
It's a bright Sunday in November—perfect weather for a braai, South Africa's cherished barbecue tradition—and in the hot stillness of the afternoon even the skittish, deerlike duikers that roam the backyard have paused their grazing to lounge.
It was freezing out, and it hurt to breathe, but everything stopped spinning, at least, and I had more balance now, and being aware of my balance made me aware of the stillness all around me, and the silence.
Many of these speak of simple pleasures — a garden, birdsong, the splash of cold water on a work-grimed face — and the best have an enigmatic stillness that is far removed from the ideological din of the political poems.
On the religious conception, regardless of how satisfying and emancipated our shared life becomes, we're always going to long for something beyond this world, for eternal rest, whether the emptiness and stillness of nirvana or the harmony of heaven.
"I create moments of stillness and darkness to start to be aware of the rest of the senses available," said Ms. Hashimoto, who connects touch, sound and sometimes scent with a performance space and the movements that fill it.
A genre ride with a rebuilt engine and a sweet paint job, "Baby Driver" is all about movement and sometimes stillness and how a beautiful man looks (feels, seems, is) even better when he's in glorious, syncopated, restless motion.
Part of the ticklish enjoyment in "The Monster" is how the director, Bryan Bertino ("The Strangers"), plays with genre registers and how, after opening with disquieting stillness and an isolated child, he slowly yet surely turns up the shrieks.
Now the old European style of acting has happily come into American independent filmmaking: lots of stillness and quiet, these moments of privacy, solitude and thinking, from actors who, to us, are strangers — and often uncannily seasoned young people.
It's strange, because all that time I was listening to the past, and now I'm almost talking for a living, and it feels very frivolous and empty compared to the stillness that there used to be in every day.
Despite all the feathery swooping and gunning motors, the flashing gold and pounding sun, these immaculately framed, balanced and photographed images have a tableaulike quality, characterized by a stillness (perhaps cultural or situational) that suggests a memento mori. (M.
As in most films by the British director Terence Davies, there is a sorrowful stillness at the heart of "Sunset Song," the opening-night selection of the Film Society of Lincoln Center's annual series Film Comment Selects, on Wednesday, Feb. 17.
But two years ago, after Koma injured his ankle, Eiko, the other half of the husband-and-wife dance duo — treasured for their stark, startlingly slow excavations of stillness and shape while time gradually passes — struck out on her own.
For the past three weeks we've created character guides to help readers figure out if they're the life of the party (Kelli), the awkwardly cool girl (Issa), or the the go-getter that could probably benefit from some stillness (Molly).
From the peeling wallpaper and crumbling staircases, to the creeping invasion of plants and dust, being inside the decaying walls of a deserted space can feel like glimpsing a window between the chaos of life and the stillness of death.
There's a pervasive hush and sense of stillness that lingers over the region of Gokseong, and scenes of brazen, crazed madness are often preceded by shots of tranquil mountain vistas whose lush, thickly forested landscapes increasingly feel smothering and secretive.
His features give way now and then to a stillness that seems menacing, recalling his role as the irascible Jerry Langford in the 1983 film "The King of Comedy," Martin Scorsese's indictment of the celebrity-fixated culture of the day.
For reassurance, she glanced at her parents' sleeping forms in the bed at whose foot her own little truckle was made up, but they were only mounds under the white sheet, their stillness for the moment too monumental to disturb.
It was as if the objects emanated their own light, which didn't move from one quadrant of the painting to another, as real light would, but vibrated somehow, so that there was a sense of movement and stillness at once.
Some nights on Peninsula Papagayo, on the northern Pacific side of Costa Rica, the moon shone so bright, with so little evidence of human life, that I felt like an interloper just for bearing witness, for breathing through its stillness.
Returning from her summer vacation, Maria Shriver is speaking frankly about grief's long shadow over her life — including the recent, sudden death of cousin Saoirse Kennedy Hill — and the "stillness" and self-love she found for herself in recent weeks.
"Vulnerable" demonstrates the power of restrained gestures, as pattering synth bass, as well as the electronic polish applied to Gomez's voice, echo through a cavernous space; given such stillness, a tiny, flushed keyboard hook is enough to convey endless yearning.
Her epic yarn of a divided and warring mother and daughter on a tormented, unitary continent called the Stillness — possibly a reverse-Pangaea, deep in our planet's future — unquestionably subverts or inverts the conventions of old-school fantasy in innumerable ways.
This isn't an orchestra that does spectacular soft atmosphere, but moments like the stillness of the second movement, "Lemminkäinen in Tuonela," when the barest shiver of violins is frosted by the barest shiver of rat-a-tat drum, were finely controlled.
Episodes of ethereal stillness—a gentle tangle of flutes, a swish of cymbals, a glistening of harp, piano, and celesta—give way to more sharply delineated gestures, such as strutting syncopated chords in the piano or throbbing pulses in the drums.
These in-between moments create a stillness in the photos that is atypical in conflict photography, and also hint at the genuine connection between the photographer and his subjects in those quiet experiences caused by the emotional shock that is war. —L.
I remember the stillness that beset D.C. the morning of the inauguration, the calm before the storm that would engulf the city that day and land hundreds of my comrades in jail for donning masks and protesting the arrival of a new dictator.
Worlds of color and stillness presented themselves to me in the spaces between the notes of those kaleidoscoping synth sequences, or in the monolithic monotones of a host of drone composers, or the uncomplicated bliss of a number of 80s New Age composers.
Since they released a mixtape in 2010 with the stated goal of making "an investigation into fourth-world undercurrents in Japanese ambient and pop music," they've been interested in the more glassine sides of electronic music—utopian forms that prize stillness and silence.
It's a moment of stillness in transit, of finding your place in this weird world, however momentarily, realizing that you have a community—or at least a friend who'll slide you a free cup of coffee—and feeling at peace in that.
" In the years that followed, whenever an item about child abduction came on television, which it frequently did — this was the era of the Atlanta child murders and the disappearance of Etan Patz — the author would feel "an icy stillness envelop us.
On Monday she was a noble Odette, a powerful Odile; to both roles she brought extraordinary moments of sudden stillness (like those Bette Davis employed in "Jezebel"), as if allowing feelings of shock, recognition and danger to register before movement could continue.
Even when he's writing about Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters or penning classic love songs, as he did on his 2016 album Passive With Desire, there's a sense of regal devotion that permeates the material, a quiet stillness that's hard to shake.
Red-hot ordnance falls out of a clear blue sky; the thin platform of lava gives way; majestic seas become the drowning wave; the beautiful stillness of the storm becomes the shredding motion of the tornado; the exhilaration of altitude crosses into anoxia.
For instance, after a scene in a clearing, the narrator instructs the reader to reproduce the soundscape — the stillness, the breeze — "by taking a deep breath and holding it for a long moment," then releasing it all at once, over and over again.
In "bend the even," moments of stillness contrast with bursts of sweeping movement that brush the dancers' bodies across the stage as the musicians, Jeff Kolar and Zeena Parkins — he plays electronics; she, the harp — perform live, both from the audience and onstage.
Five critics for The New York Times share some of their favorite moments of the Melillo era: Last September, five performers of uncommonly concentrated stillness appeared at the Harvey Theater, and a circle seemed to have been rounded into something like eternity.
Distrustful of the idea of genre, which flattens differences among artists, and of the cloying playlists devised by streaming services ("Best Morning Ever"), Ratliff organizes his chapters around themes that cut across the entire musical continuum: speed, slowness, stillness, loudness, density, virtuosity.
The study, which used tiny activity trackers to monitor babies' movements, found associations between infants' squirming, kicking, crawling or stillness and the levels of fat around their middles, raising provocative questions about just how early any links between inactivity and obesity might begin.
"Create a vision of your sabbatical that checks all the boxes you want to check, and gives you peace of mind that you will find the rest, adventure or stillness that you are seeking during this time away from your work," she said.
The underwater display is accessible only to snorkelers, scuba divers and travelers in glass-bottom boats, so the figures are both literally and figuratively remote, and in their submerged state can suggest an almost Pompeian stillness, even as they teem with life.
For all his debts to British dubstep and to the moody desolation of hip-hop auteurs like RZA (who was a guest on Blake's 2013 album, "Overgrown"), Blake had found a way to create a charged stillness, a forsaken fortress of solitude.
Even clad in double denim (a Look, by the way) and standing in front of the busy, familiar Tiny Desk set, Hadreas manages to create stillness and extraordinary beauty out of only the emotionality and fragility of his approach to the songs.
Keren Moscovitch's "The Space Between," originally a durational performance, enables two people to enter a small chamber and place wooden cylinders between their bodies, holding them while gazing at each other until the pieces fall away — a lesson in stillness and support.
"A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms," the second episode of Game of Thrones' eighth season, was a mostly fun and enjoyable piece of table-setting and fan service, a moment of harmonious stillness before the impending battle against the White Walkers begins.
"It's a daily practice, and it takes a lot of quiet and stillness to really listen to your body — to listen to what it needs for nourishment and to listen when it's thirsty, and not just feed it a soda or coffee," she said.
"House in LA" is the sort of track that invites stillness, enveloping you with its sheer atmosphere, while "Happy Man" is a funkier number with prominent bass and an extremely hooky chorus that'll compel you to dance, probably while doing lots of dramatic pointing.
She's been compared to the antic Ryan Trecartin, and the frenetic velocity of the more established artist's take on contemporary culture provides an instructive foil to her deliberation and stillness, her mournful rumination, and her quirky, web-fueled cross-referencing, in all its unsettled subjectivity.
In the air was a stillness, a peacefulness that I swore I could reach out and touch, something intangible that I wished I could bottle up and bring with me when it was time to leave and return to the craziness of the real world.
The big picture: The explanations for all this stillness vary, but the most compelling are perhaps the simplest: people have dug in because there appears to be nowhere to go — no "promised land" of relatively high wages on which they can build greater dreams.
And she's incredibly fun, playful, joyful, and free-spirited, kind and wise, and also has a sort of stillness about her because she's always tuning into people, so she's quite an interesting character to play — very vivacious and lively, yet very centered and aware.
His studies of the Antarctic wasteland in Encounters at the End of the World (2007) and of Paleolithic cave art in Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2011) bring stillness and focus to maximal saturation, holding on evocative images until they yield a new feeling of time.
But now that I've moved away, with each return it all becomes almost hallucinatory: the dark blue water, the rocky coast with occasional flashes of white sand, the jasper stone beaches along the coast, the pine and fir forests somehow vivid in their stillness.
In Night Procession (2017), an encyclopedic volume of photographs Gill took deep within the Swedish countryside where he lives, birds appear rearing the mantle of their wings, in the split second before landing, or pictured in a stillness so noble they look like statues.
Slowly, I found a measure of stillness in the daily routine of the ashram, and I suspect that had as much to do with the gradual dissolution of my concepts and labels about myself, as it had to do with the practice on the mat.
The black and white photographs of these series, composed of delicate silvery tones, recall sand trickling through the valve of an hourglass: a marker for the passage of time in a place sealed in stillness, where nary a thing moves in the midday sun.
Pyongyang, 2000 AM. The eerie stillness of the morning is shattered as loudspeakers across the city crack to life with the jarring, dissonant synth tones of "Where Are You, Dear General?" as performed by North Korea's state-sanctioned propaganda orchestra, the Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble.
Of all the different genres of music in the world—rock, space-age funk straight from the mothership, the kind of weird techno that won't stop ringing around your ears when leaving the club—there's a certain kind that operates within the realms of stillness.
Barbara Hannigan, singing her first Mélisande with precision but never coldness, more womanly than girlish, is unequaled in the opera world for her physical control, and what she does here — a mixture of stillness, deliberation and sometimes what can only be called gymnastics — is riveting.
Mr. Groban works hard and hits his marks, and he's likable, but he doesn't have anything resembling the comic chops needed to put across the show's Borscht Belt-style humor, or anything like Mr. Shalhoub's ability to relay emotion through movement (or excruciating stillness).
Since the Methyl Ethel project first materialised with Oh Inhuman Spectacle back in 2015, Webb's performance has leaned more towards the cerebral than the physical; even a dancier cut, like last year's surprise hit "Ubu," features an almost aggressive stillness in its music video.
Taken together, the two tapes offer a testament to the power of what sound art can do—to look to the past or the future, and change the way you hear a specific set of sonic cues—drawing structure from randomness or momentum from stillness.
Alliance's Warrior Coal mine, which has a contract to supply coal to the Henderson plant, is 30 miles away in western Kentucky, where the stillness of the hills is interrupted by the drone of the mine's ventilation fan and the occasional movement of rail cars.
This kind of quick transition from seizure to stillness is a characteristically Kurtagian move, as in the final of his six "Moments Musicaux" for string quartet, from 2005, when a sudden ripping roar fades to a faint march, pricked by an even fainter violin.
In Roberta Smith's review of 'Hopper Drawing' at the Whitney, she explains how viewers want "to get behind the curtain of Hopper's stillness and figure out what's going on," which explains why countless artists, filmmakers, and writers have been riffing on Hopper's work for years.
Sulphur English is a demonic, almost Biblical story full of peaks and valleys, from the gentleness of the vast "Stillness" to the torment of "The Atavist's Meridian," a 12-and-a-half-minute epic that sounds sprung from the bubbling lava pits of hell.
The first time I visited the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, I wandered entranced through galleries packed with curiosities to open a door onto an uncanny re-creation of a Central Asian courtyard, a rooftop columbarium of fountains and ferns, statuary and stillness.
Enacting Stillness , thoughtful and soft-spoken, includes a satisfying mix of performance videos and material documentation by performance-art pioneers such as Joan Jonas, Kirsten Justesen, and John Ahearn, as well as more recent practitioners such as Clifford Owens, Nicolás Dumit Estévez, and Emily Roysdon.
The constant adjustment of width and the lack of a focal point result in a surface of steady alterations, which is very different from the static nature of Albers's "Squares" or the stillness inhabiting Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" (1884).
"Everything begins and ends with stillness: a conscious awareness of my presence within the greater presence of all, whether I'm paying attention to the way the sun's rising, or whether it's misty out in the morning on the trees," she said in an interview with Fast Company.
The intense, eerie stillness of Gnoli's images — already made poignant by knowing he died at 36 of cancer, shortly after his works were first shown in New York's Sidney Janis Gallery in 773 — are, for me, inextricably associated with the experience of that Big Chill opening sequence.
It was hard not to notice that for someone known for bringing mesmerizing stillness to her unhappy characters, in person, she was animated, quick to laugh and was decidedly easygoing when it comes to how her first name is pronounced (for the record, it's mee-RAY).
The L.A. players' immersion in new music, far from hindering their work in standard repertory, surely helped them to deliver a fresh account of a familiar score; before intermission, they had given the première of Reich's Music for Ensemble and Orchestra, a vista of shimmering desert stillness.
In essence, the data showed that "both the total hours spent sitting each day and whether those hours are accrued in short or long bouts" of physical stillness influenced longevity, says Keith Diaz, an assistant professor of behavioral medicine at Columbia University, who led the new study.
For the expanded "Chaconne," each dancer performs a solo, etching the space with Limón's voluptuous turns, both fleet and slowly curving, and weightier moments of stillness in which stoic poses are embellished with sculptural touches, like the arms held overhead with the backs of the wrists touching.
With their tangible sense of simplicity and light, these enigmatic, curiously familiar images in their white frames transform the space into a refuge as comforting as it is out of sync with the chaff of everyday life — a necessary point of stillness amid the unspooling disarray.
Rejecting the jittery shooting style and sped-up splatter that distinguishes so many modern action movies — where mayhem flashes past too swiftly to register as a valid plot point or viable moral outcome — they plant their camera with such eerie stillness that every punch has traction.
With this method, researchers deprived flies of rest over the course of their entire lifetimes, tipping them hundreds of times a day such that if they were snoozing during those periods of stillness, they might have been able to sleep around 2.5 hours a day on average.
Similar to a rip tide, the rush of the crowd will be stronger than your chance of withstanding it, so try to go with the flow as you look for openings (moments of stillness) to weave in and out of the surge in a diagonal, stop-and-go motion.
Since 2013, she's made music that tends toward slow-moving melodic gestures out of both synthetic and recorded instruments, often treated and edited with electroacoustic processes that emphasize their own stillness, but this new record is the first where she's been able to explicitly engage with these feelings.
Here, the dancers, wearing simple shifts, are mercifully freed from the harsh-toned red, blue and purple outfits (by Alessandro Sartori) of the opening section, "Allegro assai," and Mr. Millepied calms the pace of the sometimes overdetailed ensemble choreography, using stillness as a counterpoint to pounding musical passages.
"It's a daily practice, and it takes a lot of quiet and stillness to really listen to your body — to listen to what it needs for nourishment and to listen when it's thirsty, and not just feed it a soda or coffee," she told the Cut in 2016.
By the time The Stone Sky begins, Essun and Nessun are both traveling to the far side of the Stillness, where they can call the moon back in order to stop the cycle of Seasons — ensuring humanity's survival on a peaceful planet, or its extinction in a perpetual apocalypse.
Discussing that growth, Khalid Latif, chaplain of the Islamic Center at New York University, said that in the city, "there's an absence of spirituality and stillness," and that even in times of heightened anxiety in the West about Muslims, the center saw a steady stream of the curious.
That's not to say that the usual Beach House markers aren't around (even the track name "Lemon Glow" is Extremely Beach House): their overwhelming sense of stillness remains present, as Victoria Legrand's voice glides through layers of synth, which feel just a little more opaque this time around.
In other paintings, a few partially plucked, not necessarily dead chickens exemplify Soutine's talent for finding action in stillness and wringing spiritual meaning out of physical facts: Ruffs of black feathers, swinging sideways on their yellow necks, stand in for the sudden, annihilating strokes of a butcher's ax.
Yet for all the emotion, only the tread of the horses' hooves, the thwack-thwack-thwack of police helicopters, the tolling of church bells and the occasional wail of agony from a mourner pierced the stillness today as the cortege wound its slow, sad way to Westminster Abbey.
Yet this powerhouse also becomes an actor capable of both religious awe (in an invocation of Shiva) and human pathos (in "A War Poem," she played a mother whose young son is killed in battle, with astonishing passages of stillness to convey the various layers of shock and numbness).
Quiet contemplation can be a tool for success: "Everything begins and ends with stillness," Oprah Winfrey told Fast Company in 2015 of her morning routine, "a conscious awareness of my presence within the greater presence of all...." This Alexa skill walks users through five minutes worth of exercise.
Cheadle has always been the most agile of actors, tough to keep up with as he switches from menacing stillness to a snapping wit; in short, he is made for Davis, and there's no doubt that he nails his hero, down to the raw rasp of his speech.
Studies in animals and people show that long hours of stillness change the body's physiology in multiple unhealthy ways, including reducing blood flow to the legs and brain; worsening the health of blood vessels; and lowering the production of substances that help to control cholesterol and blood sugar.
It's true that you need to be able to point toward and name a political problem in order to apprehend and address it, but the works in Enacting Stillness model a form of political engagement that depends less on content-based critique than on the power of singular experiences.
LAAGP: Critiques were wide-ranging, but many critics discussed the lack of effective signage; the silence and stillness of the galleries; their desire to touch the art; the arbitrary and stiff social codes for looking at art; their general discomfort in the space; and their acute awareness of being surveilled.
In a physical space, not everyone can enact walking to the crossroads at the same time, and I looked around during the "standing in line to do magic" part—never optimal in a ritual but often unavoidable—and there were perhaps equal measures of stillness and impatience, devotion and restlessness.
It was set to be one of her biggest solo shows to date, with hundreds of supporters to entertain and backed by an album she had not yet performed live in London—her hometown, yet the same city that held cause for the lingering frustrations you hear on Stillness in Wonderland.
Emboldened to add her own imprint to her acre of property, DeCourcy tore down the shed and built in its place what she calls her "house by the pool," an ultraminimalist aerie that's a physical manifestation of both the stillness she seeks each summer and Shelter Island's own ascetic predispositions.
There's always been something unnerving about her stillness onstage––brilliant in the way it subverted tropes of the pained male virtuoso guitarist, but unnerving nonetheless––but there was something about the taut posing and Clark's eerie gaze, always trained at a spot slightly above the audience, that was particularly cold.
She nervously milled about the stage, trying to find the right combination of motion and stillness as she argued with her stage husband and banged around boxes of crayons — a stand-in for boxes of Christmas decorations, which the character is supposed to be packing up in her Brooklyn tenement.
Though she placed maximum demands on Mr. Ramasar, he is now the most touchingly chivalrous of cavaliers; and when she stretched back in his arms at the end of those supported pirouettes, he timed to perfection the moment of thrilling stillness before he then turned with her one more time.
There's a track at its center called "A Passage or Time in a Hanging Truth," which explores dense clusters synth harmonies over the course of five-and-a-half minutes, calling upon the legacy of drone music to freeze the record's momentum at its center, to bask for a moment in uneasy stillness.
In the face of this seemingly intractable tug toward physical stillness, the alliance today released a new National Physical Activity Plan, with updated priorities, a broader focus on minorities with the addition of a diversity committee, and more recommendations and advice for how people might encourage physical activity in their communities and schools.
In "16 + a room," Ms. Molnar, a former member of Ballet Frankfurt under William Forsythe, embraces her Forsythe roots with an apocalyptic exploration of motion — quick, darting — contrasted with stillness, in which dancers occupy a stage under surveillance-style spotlights and a monotonously ominous score that sounds, at times, like a circling helicopter.
But even as they raise millions of dollars and plan nationwide rallies, parse the details of assault-weapons laws and spar with politicians and conservative critics, the young survivors of the massacre are struggling with the loss of their friends and educators, and the nightmares that flood back in moments of stillness.
It was then that I came to appreciate that in Palm Springs, pool-hopping is akin to time-traveling, each expanse of water reflecting the past and present; the possibilities of multiple slices of life; the intense blue stillness of the sky, so glassy above and below, a forever mirror of the other.
He is probably best-known for his double portraits from the '21s and his scenes of American leisure, the sunbathers and swimming pools that can have a strange stillness about them, capturing the eternal sunshine of the California mind with an incisiveness that perhaps only an expatriate (or Joan Didion) could muster.
The next sculptural iteration of his ideas (after a rooftop extravaganza at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2012) arrives at the newly expanded San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, in "Tomás Saraceno: Stillness in Motion — Cloud Cities," a complex of cords and reflective panels built to evoke a 10,000-node airborne habitation.
Near nothing in particular, a gaggle of children wearing cardboard Harry and Meghan masks spontaneously began swinging their arms in a stiff-limbed arrhythmic dance for several minutes — with no apparent aim or supervision — and the uncanny jerkiness of their movements was enhanced by the eerie floating stillness of the adult-sized faces.
And at the risk of contradicting myself, I do have thoughts, not quite on the scale of Tennyson's in "In Memoriam A.H.H." — "There where the long street roars, hath been/The stillness of the central sea" — but similar in kind: That rag covered in grease and dust was once a Paul Smith shirt!
Even as the Chinese internet's reputation abroad is dominated by the shadow of censorship cast by the Great Firewall, biaoqing complicate the narrative of a Chinese internet scared into stillness; the legal scaffolding may be the thing visible from space, but up close you'll always find people being irrepressibly playful and emotional and assertive.
Stillness in Wonderland: The Film is a trippy 15 minute fever dream of a short which dips between the real and the surreal, kind of like Alice in Wonderland except it's much cooler and there isn't a creepy smiling cat that bugs you out a bit and makes you feel weird for some time after.
In the song "Everything Is Floating" she speaks plainly about the experience of seeing her life's work reduced to junk: "how beautiful, how magic, and how catastrophic", she says, delivering the line with a kind of contemplative stillness that wouldn't be misplaced on a meditation tape (which isn't surprising––Anderson is also a practising Buddhist).
With Mr. Beltrão's evening-length "Inoah" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, this contemporary Brazilian hip-hop company presented a spellbinding, fully realized theatrical world in which 10 male dancers, enveloped in near darkness and shadows, melted into the floor, sprang up again and skirted the edge between turbulence and stillness.
Place them alongside recent, similarly rich videos from other directors—Lamar's "HUMBLE," for example, or the delicate stillness of Solange's A Seat At The Table visuals—and it's clear the medium has entered a new echelon, bringing a sharp and refined light to to the communities of black artists who are leading the charge.
The technology used to measure your sleep in most fitness trackers today, which according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine uses a process known as actigraphy, detects when you're still for a long period of time using an accelerometer and makes its own judgement as to when you've fallen asleep when periods of stillness are identified.
There's also "Amo," which applies clinical hypnosis techniques like deep breathing and guided imagery to increase relaxation during minor invasive procedures; "Spacio," which provides deep breathing training, rewards stillness, and accustoms patients to the sounds they'll hear in preparing for an MRI or radiation; and "Aqua," an immersive underwater experience to help manage anxiety and pain.
I've adjusted to its absence, but cramming into a ground-floor apartment at the far end of Bushwick on a block with three rambunctious new hipster bars, paper-thin walls, and a constant stream of local traffic is no life for a girl who grew up with only whispering pines and whistling whippoorwills to break the stillness.
Her Inheritance Trilogy made a splash a few years back, and The Fifth Season, which is set on a land mass called the Stillness undergoing rather un-still environmental upheaval, promises to be an even deeper, richer display of both her world-building prowess (there are two appendices) and her predilection for a diverse slate of complex characters.
Compared to the labored rhetoric of "Two Doves" and "Stillness Is the Move," the pomo lieder Longstreth ceded her in the Dirty Projectors, the one-dimensionality of "All to Myself"'s "I want to be swallowed up in an ocean of love" or "Miss You"'s "Gonna take you on a night ride" are formal coups in reverse.
We need to understand that when Thoreau sat in the dooryard of his cabin "from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sang around or flitted noiseless through the house," he was offering counsel and example exactly suited for our perilous moment in time.
It was many years later, lying in the semi-dark and stillness, cleaned up and dry, after birthing my baby, my first—I could see where she lay wrapped, not crying, and everything was well—that I remembered sitting at long last, after climbing beyond my strength, under a tree in the shade, breathing in and out.
"Whilst we were out playing and exploring the area around us—the sound reflecting from the rocks, the sound of the wind between them, complete stillness at night and packs of roaming coyotes in the distance, it became apparent that we could use this as its own unique recording environment," said Shepherd in a press release.
Many of her works must be seen in person — and I don't just mean the immediately photogenic rooms: her Infinity Net paintings, from her first difficult years in New York, have incredible texture that guides your mind to stillness; lesser-known, biomorphic collages she made in Japan in the mid-1970s combine fabric, ink, and pastel with dexterity.
In the same way that a record like Hiroshi Yoshimura's Green can recall the composed stillness of a Japanese water garden I'm still yet to visit, a track like Lil Yachty's "Never Switch Up" transports my mind to a place where I'm permanently reclined in the soothing, safe touch of the world's most comfortable Lazy Boy.
"Masekela," set to music by the trumpeter and composer Hugh Masekela, was the opposite: With quiet, measured brutality, it was something of a tableau vivant coming to life as it told, through spurts of agitated movement and biting stillness, how violence and prejudice can make a place crumble and how despair and defiance go hand in hand.
Coffman steals the show with her vocal performance (both Coffman and Deradoorian got solo performances on Bitte Orca, with "Stillness" taking much of the spotlight away from Deradoorian's gorgeous ballad, "Two Doves"), channeling her inner Mariah and relying on cliché lyrics to illustrate Longstreth's meta-comment on a genre he grew up adoring (Longstreth is a self-professed Timberlake devotee).
I happen to revere him most in motion, as in the hotfooted thrill of " The Last of the Mohicans " (1992), but he is equally a champion of stillness, and he seems, like certain rare sportsmen, to be preternaturally blessed with time—enough time, that is, to take stock of a situation, while people bustle around him, and to ponder his next move.
Father sits on the end of her bed – as if it might bring him closer to his daughter, somehow fixing what he tore apart years ago when he left – with disbelief and other things carving lines across his forehead as he kisses his teeth, cracking through the stillness of the ward, and asks her Well why did you get involved?
Of course, it would've been a completely different movie with Smith learning kung fu or whatever, since Reeves brought a hollow stillness to Neo that fit the character perfectly and Will Smith can't help but hog the frame whenever he's on screen, but it has always been an interesting thought experiment for stoned teenage film nerds to chew on over the years.
In "The Obelisk Gate," Essun and Nassun separately began to grasp that the seasons and other anomalies of the Stillness — including the destiny of the roggas; the existence of the huge, floating obelisks that drift around the planet, purpose unknown; and the mysterious race of human-mineral immortals known as the stone eaters — have their origins deep in the past.
In a crucial scene between Qiao and Bin, set in a gloomy hotel room on a rainy night and largely played out in a single, expertly-choreographed shot, Jia focuses intently on gestures, expressions, and moments of stillness: a pair of eyes darting away from a pitying gaze; the nervous lighting of a cigarette; a back quivering with long-suppressed sobs.
Where one composition posits us in the point of a view of fishermen on a boat tossing in the sea, its hull receding away towards the mountain in a thunderously dynamic composition, another adopts a ground level perspective watching little figures on a stationary platform staring even further away at the tiny mountain in the distance, all stillness and peace.
It was her writing that pushed the horizons of fantasy for me, planted the first seeds in my mind that problems weren't always to be beaten into submission, and that sometimes as with Ged and his Shadow, the enemy we had to confront was simply our own nature, and the most powerful weapon against it was the stillness and hard work that leads to understanding.
In this respect, the section of Dennis Bergkamp's masterful autobiography – Stillness and Speed – in which he takes time out from his cerebral meditation on the nature of the sport to tell the story of how he endeared himself to his new Arsenal team-mates by pulling Highbury kit man Vic Akers' pants down in front of a group of unwitting female visitors, is instructive.
More often, they linger on the small joys of its rural Scandinavian setting: the shimmer of the grass in the wee hours of the morning, the technicolor pockets of the wildflowers on rolling hills, the stillness of the countryside as the film's central characters lay on their backs during a mushroom trip, gazing up at the sky and out at the nature around them.
The 12-minute dance drama is a link in a bigger series: The Moving Company is in the midst of Mauve Bird with Yellow Teeth Red Feathers Green Feet and a Rose Belly, a four-year public performance project exploring how communities deal with trauma, focusing on empathy as a tool for resolution, stillness as a means of resistance, and joy as the ultimate goal.
The protagonists of her novel are Camilla, Charles, Alma, Edward, Alwilda and Kristian, a cluster of friends in their 30s and 40s, three men and three women, all well educated and well mannered, and also well-off enough that they can afford to worry about an uncommon moment of melancholy and stillness in a garden rather than the grim business of making rent each month.
The exhibition is centered on large-scale canvasses from Azzam's most recent "Untitled Storeys" series (2015), filled with images the artist sourced from Reuters and other news outlets, which are void of any figuration or presence of human life, depicting instead the stillness, alienation, and haunting sense of absence experienced by the millions of men, women, and children who have fled, to destinations unknown, in search of asylum.
Lizzy Goodman writes about the crossover country star Kacey Musgraves's response to the current mood in her song "Slow Burn": What makes Musgraves such a resonant figure right now, in fact, is the way her response to a dark, anxious moment in human history is to move willfully closer to lightness, to stillness, toward the possibility of a world that comes in more colors than red or blue.
I'm especially susceptible to holiday specials — "The Snowman," from the BBC ("The whole world seemed to be held in a dreamlike stillness") is the worst, but I cry at "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," too, and not only because I admire the pluck of Hermey the Elf, who came out as a dentist during a time when very few Claymation figures had the courage to live their lives authentically.

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