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(dance) In performance dance, a freestanding 45-degree lean, with a special shoe, anchored to the floor by a support bolt locking to the dance shoe.
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(ballet) The apparent elegance and precision exhibited by a confident, accomplished dancer.
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(ballet) A dance position in which the dancer stands on one leg, with the other raised backwards, and the arms outstretched.
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(ballet) A position similar to arabesque, but with the raised leg bent at the knee.
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A position in ballet where the dancer's working leg is pointed behind them in a bent fourth position; an unstretched tendu en arrière
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Alternative letter-case form of B-boy [(slang) To breakdance.]
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Alternative form of balladine [(historical) A female public dancer.]
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The star female ballet performer in the company.
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The realm or sphere of ballerinas.
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The star male ballet performer of a company.
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A man with school-age children, most likely girls, especially one who spends time transporting them between after-school activities.
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a person who dances in ballets
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A type of women's flat with a very low heel, thin sole, and round toe.
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An employee of a ballet company who is charged with maintaining the skill of the company's dancers.
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A mother who teaches ballet or is a ballet dancer.
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A group of dancers performing together at a ballet; a company of actors
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One who attends a performance of ballet.
adj
Attending ballet performances.
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Pertaining to or suitable for ballet.
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Alternative form of ballet master [An employee of a ballet company who is charged with maintaining the skill of the company's dancers.]
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(ballet) The quality of a jump by which a ballet dancer appears to pause in midair
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A large room used for dancing and banquets.
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(music) A form of showmanship in which a musician stands on the bar
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A dance movement in some line dances, where men put their arms round the women's lower backs, and the women put their arms over the men's shoulders, and the group (usually of four, any more is difficult) spins round, which should result in the women's feet leaving the ground.
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One who performs a belly dance.
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A young male dancer, typically a ballet dancer.
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Alternative form of bobby soxer [(dated) In the 1940s, a young woman or teenage girl who was a zealous fan of traditional pop, especially of Frank Sinatra.]
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(Caribbean) A stickfighter.
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(informal, dated) A person who dances the bop.
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A performer of the cakewalk dance.
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(dance) The person who directs dancers in certain dances, such as American line dances and square dances.
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(ballet) A bending at the waist in any direction, forward, backward, or to the side
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(dance) A triple step that moves linearly, comes together, and then changes direction, typically back together forward but also forward together back.
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chorus line, ballet personnel
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A nocturnal dance held by Australian Aborigines, for social, celebratory or warlike purposes.
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(ballet) A ballet dancer ranking above a member of the corps de ballet and below a soloist.
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The movement of dancers around a central point.
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(dance) A step in which one leg crosses behind the other.
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(music, slang, neologism, rare) A performer of crunk music.
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(idiomatic) A striptease performance.
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one who is addicted to dancing.
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Alternative form of dance floor [A large floor, usually made of hardwood, used primarily for dancing.]
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A person who attends either a dance or a dance performance.
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A person who dances, usually as a hobby, an occupation, or a profession.
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A place for dancing, such as a nightclub.
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Obsolete form of dancer. [A person who dances, usually as a hobby, an occupation, or a profession.]
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(ballet) Alternative spelling of demipointe (“a ballet position executed with the dancer up on the balls of the feet”) [(anatomy, ballet) The ball of the foot, the padded front part of the sole behind the tip of the toes; hence, a ballet position executed with the dancer up on the balls of one or both feet, the heels raised up off the floor.]
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(dance) Synonym of demi-caractère
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(anatomy, ballet) The ball of the foot, the padded front part of the sole behind the tip of the toes; hence, a ballet position executed with the dancer up on the balls of one or both feet, the heels raised up off the floor.
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(ballet) A dancer of a particular rank below soloist.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a disco (nightclub where dancing takes place).
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Alternative form of discotheque [(slightly dated) A nightclub where dancing takes place.]
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(ballet) A short ballet within a larger work, usually providing a break from the main plot.
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(performing arts) A dance performance incorporating the artful use of fans.
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(performing arts) A person who performs a fan dance.
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A female figurant, especially a ballet dancer.
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A traditional form of clogging danced in Appalachia.
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Any movement of the feet, especially intricate or complex movement, as in sports or dancing.
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(ballet) A ballet move in which either the body or the working leg is whipped around forcefully.
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Alternative form of foxtrot [A ballroom dance with a slow-slow-quick-quick rhythm.]
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A Scottish folk dance popular at ceilidhs.
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A modern dance movement style and pedagogy based on the opposition between contraction and release and on the spiraling of the torso around the axis of the spine.
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Alternative form of half gyp [A move in contra dancing related to the gypsy.]
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Alternative form of half gyp [A move in contra dancing related to the gypsy.]
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(informal, derogatory) A person who attends a music night with little understanding of the genre or subculture.
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Alternative form of hootenanny [(music) An informal, festive performance by folk singers, often including audience participation with the use of acoustic instruments.]
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(theater) A lively song and dance routine at the start of a musical.
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Alternative form of canticoy [(archaic, rare) A social gathering, usually for dancing.]
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A dancer who performs krumping.
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A person who performs a lap dance, especially one who is employed to do so in a strip club.
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Alternative form of lap dancer [A person who performs a lap dance, especially one who is employed to do so in a strip club.]
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(obsolete) One who leads a dance.
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A girl who performs such a dance.
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(Philippines) A male stripper who works in a strip club.
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A dancer who twirls and performs stunts with a lightweight baton, whether as a solo, in a group of majorettes, or in the company of a marching band.
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A carnivalesque dance with swords and bucklers, traditionally performed in Spain by costumed troupes.
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One who dances around the maypole.
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A revived form of traditional American burlesque performance, involving dance, striptease, dramatic performance, etc.
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Alternative form of one-man band [A musician who plays several musical instruments at once.]
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(ballet) A position in which the feet are apart, or a movement which brings them apart.
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Alternative spelling of plié [(ballet) A smooth and continuous bending of the knees]
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(ballet) The tip of the toe; a ballet position executed with the tip of the toe.
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A performer who dances and acts out acrobatics on a vertical pole.
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(Christianity, in the plural) Two bands (strips of linen) worn as formal neckwear by members of the Christian clergy.
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A children's class that introduces dance-like movements, intended to lead into ballet classes later.
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(ballet) The lead male dancer in a ballet; compare première danseuse.
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(ballet) The lead female dancer in a ballet.
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The leading ballerina in a dance company.
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A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
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(formal) A prom (dance).
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A fast foxtrot noted for its complex and intricate footwork.
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(ballet) A position in which the dancer rises to the ball of the feet from demi plié to balance on one or both feet. Can be done on demi-pointe, or full pointe
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In Brazil, a building or place where samba schools parade during the period of Carnival.
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The performance of skirt dances.
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Alternative form of soft shoe [(performing arts) A kind of tap dancing performed in soft-soled shoes, popular in vaudeville.]
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Someone who dances the step dance.
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A participant in street dance.
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Someone who performs a table dance.
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(US, law enforcement, slang) Target.
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A person who dances, especially professionally.
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(dance) An advanced form of ballet primarily for the females, dancing ballet primarily using a Pointe shoe.
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(countable) A performer of this dance.
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A costumed character of the French Guianan carnival: a masked woman who invites men to dance.
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(ballet) The leading ballet dancer in a company
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