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

My lovers, Serena and Tom, shadow dance and deceive, even as they fall in love.

From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2013

Among the waifs and strays have been glimpses of real talent, with shadow dance troupe Attraction making the judges gasp with amusement.

From The Guardian • May 27, 2013

"It was a new kind of shadow dance."

From Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)

And it is a week off; and there is the bell still jangling its shadow dance out of Dinorah.

From Roundabout Papers by Thackeray, William Makepeace

While every one was enthusiastically demanding a repetition of this shadow dance, Angelica slipped away to look after the supper, like a careful hostess.

From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. II by Heyse, Paul