Sentence examples for dance of protest from inspiring English sources

Across the street, growing numbers of young men and some women were dancing the toyi toyi — the historic dance of protest, in which demonstrators move forward military style.

There were demonstrators out in the street burning tires and throwing stones and doing that traditional dance of protest they call the toyi-toyi that they used to do during the days of apartheid.

Among the dances of her 1927 program was Revolt, probably the first dance of protest and social comment staged in the United States, which was set to the avant-garde music of Arthur Honegger.

Holm's Trend (1937), a large-scale dance of social protest, and another work of social commentary, Tragic Exodus (1939), are among her best-known concert works.

A dance of social protest, it works not only as an indictment of inhuman conditions suffered by Southern rural blacks of the time, but also as starkly minimalist abstract movement.

Huge crowds of locals turned out to see Mr. Eisenhower, and 1,500 of them began a snake dance to protest the presence of American troops and the failure to return the island to Japanese control.

Aronsohn also called her out for "green and pink washing our climate and queer family" and asserted, "If Ivanka Trump isn't gaslighting us, then she should come into the streets and werk it!" WERK for Peace and a number of these other organizations have taken part in similar forms of dance protest in the past several months since the election of Donald Trump.

Photograph: AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq Photograph: Musadeq Sadeq/AP Whilst Ensler's message of defiance against violence resonates strongly, her dictum to dance as a means of protest has not been embraced in a conservative, Muslim country where public images and depictions of women performing is frowned upon.

Using dance as a form of protest - as a tactic of revolutionary self-love and artistic expression, the world was witness to events, rallies, flash mobs, artistic uprisings, panel discussions, and concerts taking place in locations where women felt safe or deserve to feel safe.

The crowd swayed to Keys, and did the toyi-toyi -- the protest dance of the apartheid era -- to the hometown favorites BLK JKS.

Past the Mony Group and the new headquarters of Random House, the ragged boa of protest shuffle-danced into the gloomy depths of midtown.