Sentence examples for stick dance from inspiring English sources

The men, wearing skirts constructed from a colorful fabric strips, perform a stick dance (or maculelé) as they repeat a particular sequence: after lunging to one side, they hold their sticks in front of their bodies and bow their heads; then, opening their arms to either side, they shake their hips.

"The stick dance is to honor their relatives," Esmailka explained.

When the two lost children are reburied, however, there will be no stick dance.

In Iran there exists the Çûb-Bâzî Çûb-Bâzîgame"; or raqstickûb, "stick dance"), a dance form that probably has its origame in reenactments or combat.

For the next two years, the Esmailkas prepared a "stick dance" that would eventually take place over the course of an entire week.

The ezpatadantza and the makildantza ("stick dance") employs makila (traditional Basque walking sticks), and ends with the dancers raising one of them, lying as a fallen warrior, over their heads.

"Canavial," a premiere, is based on Afro-Brazilian stick dances.

But you can smell the English countryside through its distanced wit and Ashton's English stick dances, not to speak of the slapstick routines he learned on a day job in a London music hall.

Iberian stick dances (paulitos, paloteos, ball de bastons) display two opposite rows of dancers.

Gujarati stick dances and Bhajan devotional songs from Northern India are in his blood, well mixed by now with the pop sounds of a boyhood in Rochester, New York: Prince and James Brown, then Miles and Monk.

He'll feel comfortable in crowds and probably enjoy watching the devil sticks dance against the patchouli sunset.