While Shinichi Harada, an actor, recited a text in Japanese in Mr. Kaseda's "Kabuku-towa" ("The Way of Ronin"), Mr. Kaseda performed fierce martial-arts movements.
The movement vocabulary, set to Wimme Saari's haunting vocal music and accented by the dancers' bell-laden anklets, is martial and fierce, full of crouching lunges and spinning lifts.
You play with and against friends as a mask-wearing avatar, looking like its stepped out of a place somewhere between Dishonored and Volume, who mix martial arts with fierce swordplay, learning new moves and stances as the game processes by using a system not too unlike Remember Me's "combo lab".
Two creations by Jelon Vieira, the company's artistic director, were based on capoeira, a traditional and spectacular Brazilian martial art notable for its quick fierce kicks.
Set in ancient China but contemporary in spirit, the movie stars Chow Yun Fat as a wise martial arts master who does battle with a fierce young female fighter (the exquisite Zhang Ziyi) after she steals his legendary sword.
In "Dark Kingdom," with her furs, her blond dreadlocks, her martial-artsy way of wielding a spear, she's fierce and sexy — a true Valkyrie, a warrior both on the ice floes and in the bedchamber.
("Fierce Ajax led the Locrian squadrons on. . . Euboea next her martial sons prepares" and so on, and on).
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Khan dances traditional kathak, his arms whirling like silken banners above the concentrated maths of his footwork; Guillem combines the fierce linear lyricism of her classical training with slow Zen balances and plunging martial-arts moves.
