march-movement

Arrived at length in a portico, open to the supper-chamber, they contrived that their mechanical march-movement should fall out into a kind of highly expressive dramatic action; and with the utmost possible emphasis of dumb motion, their long swords weaving a silvery network in the air, they danced the Death of Paris.

Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 Walter Pater 1866

At last the orchestral conductor, out of all patience, came and begged him not to conduct at all; he had hit upon an expedient: -- He caused the chorus-singers to simulate a march-movement, raising each foot alternately, without moving on.

The Orchestral Conductor Theory of His Art Hector Berlioz 1836