Occasionally, mimetic gestures suggest that the men are playing violins and flutes and scribbling words - perhaps even poems - in the air.

Balanchine's mimetic gestures (both dancers harken, hand to ear) are throwaway mysteries embedded in a grander design.

But whereas the mimetic gestures prove to be totally inscrutable, the sheer momentum of the ensembles invests them with their own compelling kinetic drama.

Mr. Bocca indicated Solor's hotblooded nature with his forceful mimetic gestures.

It is therefore suggested that the establishment of contractual understandings enabled the decisive transition from mimetic gesture to fully conventionalised, digitally encoded speech.

The second act began with mimetic gestures evoking the weariness and pain of a flight into the wilderness.

He told the story clearly with florid mimetic gestures.

The results are seldom persuasive and, out of context, the mimetic gestures look stilted.

Judith Fugate made the mimetic gestures of Calliope, the third Muse, resemble tragic declamations.

The dancers sing their lines simultaneously as they dance with mimetic gestures (angika abhinaya).