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  2. Shadowgraphy (performing art) - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Shadowgraphy or ombromanie is the art of performing a story or show using images made by hand shadows. It can be called "cinema in silhouette". Performers are titled as a shadowgraphist or shadowgrapher. The art has declined since the late 19th century when electricity became available to homes because light bulbs and electric lamps do ...

  3. Shadow Dancing (song) - Wikipedia

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    Shadow Dancing (song) " Shadow Dancing " is a disco song performed by English singer-songwriter Andy Gibb. The song was released in April 1978 as the lead single by RSO Records from his second studio album of the same name. The song reached number one for seven consecutive weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1978.

  4. Allegory of the cave - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Plato's allegory of the cave is an allegory presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a, Book VII) to compare "the effect of education ( παιδεία) and the lack of it on our nature ". It is written as a dialogue between Plato's brother Glaucon and his mentor Socrates and is narrated by the latter.

  5. Attraction (group) - Wikipedia

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    The group was founded in 2004 by Zoltán Szűcs. Szűcs himself was a performer who achieved national success in the mid-1990s with his pop group Hip Hop Boyz, [1] when he was known as Real Action. [2] Attraction itself consists of twelve members, [3] although only eight were able to perform on Britain's Got Talent: Torda Katalin, Tóth ...

  6. Spinning dancer - Wikipedia

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    Spinning dancer. The Spinning Dancer, also known as the Silhouette Illusion, is a kinetic, bistable, animated optical illusion originally distributed as a GIF animation showing a silhouette of a pirouetting female dancer. The illusion, created in 2003 by Japanese web designer Nobuyuki Kayahara, [1] [2] involves the apparent direction of motion ...

  7. Wayang - Wikipedia

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    The term wayang is the Javanese word for ' shadow ' [3] [13] or 'imagination'. The word's equivalent in Indonesian is bayang. In modern daily Javanese and Indonesian vocabulary, wayang can refer to the puppet itself or the whole puppet theatre performance. [citation needed]

  8. Shadow play - Wikipedia

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    Shadow play, also known as shadow puppetry, is an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment which uses flat articulated cut-out figures (shadow puppets) which are held between a source of light and a translucent screen or scrim. The cut-out shapes of the puppets sometimes include translucent color or other types of detailing.

  9. Shadow Dancing (album) - Wikipedia

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    Shadow Dancing is the second studio album by English singer-songwriter Andy Gibb, released by RSO Records in June 1978 in the United States and September 1978 in the United Kingdom. It was Gibb's highest charting album in some countries including America and in Canada. This LP was his only album to chart in the UK.