shadow dance

American  

noun

1. a dance in which shadows of the dancers are cast on a screen.

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Etymology

Origin of shadow dance

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

It’s this misalignment, she said, that prevents us from experiencing a celestial shadow dance every month with the new and full moons.

From New York Times

She also read widely — Nabokov and Bor­ges were her two favorite contemporary authors — and began to work on her first short stories, followed by a novel, the often brutal “Shadow Dance.”

From Washington Post

Carter’s first novel, “Shadow Dance,” appeared in 1966.

From New York Times

Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was plucked from the slush pile by an editor who found every sentence “remarkable”.

From The Guardian

“Shadow Dance” bears a “Nabokovian hue”, “The Magic Toyshop” grew out of a single line in André Breton’s “First Surrealist Manifesto”, and Manhattan in the time of the Black Panthers and the Stonewall riots offered the dystopian backdrop for “The Passion of New Eve”.

From Economist