They condemned United States forces as occupiers, burned American flags and paraded in martial formations.
Staged on the anachronistic, Stalin-inspired boulevards of Pyongyang, the production blends mass coercion, martial formations, traditional rituals, and implied nuclear deterrence.
The rise in the popularity of the bat'leth has led to the formation martial arts teams aiming to develop a martial art distinct from the one Curry initially developed.
Taiwan has lifted martial law, allowed the formation of new parties and held its first presidential election.
FIGHTER aircraft streak in formation across the Paris sky; martial bands bring a tear to the patriotic eye; troops parade down the Champs Elysées in choreographed appeal to national pride.
Waterloo, his harrowing final loss, looks no different from any of the production's dozen or so martial moments: wide shots of DeMille-scale troop formations, close-ups of uniformed torsos with bloody perforations.
The first truly grand-scale rally occurred in 1929 and featured most of the elements that marked all future rallies: blaring Wagnerian overtures, stirring martial songs, banners, goose-step marches, human swastika formations, torchlight processions, bonfires, and magnificent fireworks displays.
These additions occurred due to influences from 1970s martial arts films, influences from gymnastics, and the formation of dance crews —teams of street dancers who get together to develop new moves, create dance routines, and battle other crews.
Since few records about the actual martial arts used by the Spartans survive aside from accounts of formations and tactics, the fight choreography led by Damon Caro was a synthesis of different weapon arts with Filipino martial arts as the base.
As the anniversary of martial law has approached, some observers have been inclined to look back on the formation of Solidarity in 1980 as the death knell of communism or at least the first nail in communism's coffin.
The spirit of danças da rua (street dances) – whose fusion of hip-hop, samba and the Afro-Brazilian martial art of capoeira are most at home in gritty neighbourhoods – led to the formation of Balé de Rua, which now dazzles audiences in 13 countries and this week plays at London's popular Southbank summer festival.
