Collocations withdance
These are words often used in combination withdance.
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ceremonial dance
Instrumental forms included the "basse danse", or "bassadanza", which was a ceremonial dance of a rather dignified character, and relatively slow tempo.
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choreographed dance
Further scenes see the singer draped on the bonnet of a classic car and performing a choreographed dance sequence with a handful of businessmen.
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classical dance
Classical dance has always denied the relationship between dance gesture and musical gesture: the dance was always inserted into the musical event.
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dance class
In 1925 a dance class for young girls was created.
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dance club
In the second case the visitors are invited to actively participate in the familiar environment of a dance club.
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dance competition
Following the rap and ragga competition was a dance competition that consisted of five individual or group contestants.
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dance contest
The segment was a dance contest featuring three different groups of artists.
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dance partner
A taxi dancer is a professional dance partner, employed by a dancehall or nightclub to dance with patrons who pay a fee for each dance.
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dance routine
Take it one step further, learn the words and the dance routine, and who knows, you yourself might become the performer you see before you.
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dance sequence
In the subsequent solo dance sequence, the dancer appears twinned (through superimposition of a digitally reversed image) with a mirror image of himself.
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elaborate dance
As a result, he started to co-operate a bit more, and there was an elaborate dance throughout the rest of the year.
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electronic dance music
A single performer controlled interface for electronic dance/music theatre.
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folkloric dance
The national sense of unity of folkloric dance is thus a result of each region's distinct performance.
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hip-hop dance
Together with her dynamic hip-hop dance, all of her songs ranked high in the music chart, and her first album marked a million sales in 2002.
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mating dance
The couple's subsequent extravagances are part of a complicated mating dance at once witty, slapstick and tender, balanced at the end between ritual and reality.
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ritual dance
He accused me last time of doing a "ritual dance".
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sacred dance
It was conceived as a stage for sacred dance.
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traditional dance
When talking about dance music, he is careful to distinguish between traditional dance music and jazz (which for him, as seen in the above quotation, also includes the tango).
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tribal dance
I have described it as the annual political tribal dance.
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