Sentence examples for saber dance from inspiring English sources
He frankly composed popular music, and there was a period when the "Saber Dance" from the "Gayne" ballet was omnipresent.
Or in Khachaturian's case, part of a work: the garish and ubiquitous "Saber Dance" from the ballet "Gayane".
These were also the prime years of the postwar avant-garde, when creating something like Khachaturian's wildly popular "Saber Dance" amounted to a crime against high art.
After intermission came three pieces from Khachaturian's ballet "Gayane," inevitably including the Saber Dance; Tchaikovsky's overture-fantasy "Romeo and Juliet"; and, as encore, the Trepak from Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker".
Compared with other Weinberg scores that have come to light, the rhapsody is minor, but the orchestra played its klezmer-tinged themes with an appealing lilt and gave an explosive account of its more overtly virtuosic finale, which calls to mind Khachaturian's "Saber Dance".
By the age of 40, Khachaturian had also written the popular ballet "Gayane" (the source of the "Saber Dance"), a number of chamber pieces and patriotic songs, and two dozen scores of incidental and film music, including his best known, for the Lermontov drama "Masquerade".
In a scene from the Daily Caller's video, Mr. Pai, center with a toy light saber, dances the Harlem Shake.
When one waiter delivered a bowl of chicken liver and began mixing in the onions, Mr. Lubnitzki played a frantic saber-dance melody and urged the waiter to "Get on the ball" and mix faster.
On Sunday, Strasbourg celebrates the 250th anniversary of its School for Equitation, Fencing and Dance with riding, saber demonstrations, Baroque dance and a two-hour parade through town.
He seemed to be playing to the television cameras with pronounced saber thrusts in the "Ritual Fire Dance" from Falla's "Amor Brujo" and with baton twitches to mark every skittish beat in a Rossini line.
Amidst the Bollywood-style performances and celebrity guest appearances, perhaps the most bizarre part of the event was a dance that featured terrorists brandishing light sabers.
