: a dance shown by throwing the shadows of dancers on a screen
Examples of shadow dance in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebAt a nexus of physics and the imagination, each of these breakthroughs is a kind of shadow dance of the other, in that each inculcates, as a value, the idea that every individual exists within their own space-time continuum.—William Benton, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2023 The Top 10 was rounded out by singer Angelina Jordan, shadow dance group Silhouettes, dog tricks act Alexa Lauenburger, dance group Boogie Storm and accordionist Hans, who finally made up with Cowell.—Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2020 On a warm summer afternoon, a light breeze sweeps through the mesh screen on the side of my tent, ruffling the canvas roof and sending maple leaf shadows dancing above my head.—Terri Colby, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2019
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