Tra từ dance - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dance tune
▪ The DJ played some bouncy dance tunes.
a film/music/dance/arts festival
▪ The movie won an award at the Cannes Film Festival.
a writing/painting/dancing etc competition
▪ Greg won the school public-speaking competition.
ballroom dancing
barn dance
belly dance
classical ballet/dance etc
contemporary art/music/dance
▪ Each year there is a contemporary music festival in November.
country dancing
dance band
dance floor
dance hall
dinner dance
fitness/dance/fashion etc craze
▪ The jogging craze began in the 1970s.
folk dance
lap dancing
line dancing
morris dancing
pole dancing
sb's eyes twinkle/dance with mischief (=they show that someone wants to cause trouble, play tricks etc)
▪ Leo nodded, his eyes shining with mischief.
square dance
Strictly Come Dancing
sword dance
table dancing
tap dancing
war dance
wear sth to a party/a dance/an interview etc
▪ I’m wearing a scarlet dress to the party.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
classical
▪ The above examples are all slightly parodied versions of classical dance steps.
▪ Olivia Rojo boasts more than two decades of classical dance training.
▪ It has evolved from the simplest folk through the mannered court and finally to the expert classical dance.
▪ Yet Ashton found ways of so moulding classical dance that the ladies even danced sur les pointes in so Edwardian a setting.
▪ Technical characteristics Classical dance in its purest form requires symmetry and balance.
▪ A delightful repertoire of contemporary &038; classical dance &038; music.
▪ If choreographers have had training in classical dance, they already have a large vocabulary of movement on which to call.
contemporary
▪ Over a three-month period, opera attracted 1 percent of the population but ballet and contemporary dance fewer than 1 percent.
▪ A delightful repertoire of contemporary &038; classical dance &038; music.
folk
▪ The event will be followed by a Pan-Orthodox folk dance celebration.
little
▪ Take your little partner and dance and sing: anything from waltzes to tangos, nursery rhymes to blues and rock.
▪ The vain girl did a little dance in them, but when she tried to stop, the shoes kept on dancing.
▪ I looked at Harvey, but he was staring at his feet which twitched for another little dance.
▪ The first section of the piece initially called for little formal dance movement.
▪ As he stepped out of the elevator and strode towards her, she felt her heartbeat do a funny little dance.
▪ Nicky Black did a little cold-day dance, hands in pockets, giving a buck-tooth grin.
▪ He was still looking down and still doing a little dance.
merry
▪ Willie leads his Man a merry dance at any party, chasing any woman in sight.
▪ But he led the field a merry dance until being overhauled inside the final furlong.
▪ Against all forecasts, against all evidence, the little guy sometimes leads the invincible giant a merry dance.
modern
▪ The fact that all the acts are the same couple of blokes is just the way it is in modern dance.
▪ At one point Ronald was chasing me and I was pulling out all my modern dance technique.
▪ In some ways these two -- one from modern dance, the other from rock music -- are an odd match.
▪ Now Alvin set about creating in earnest his groundbreaking modern dance repertory company.
▪ I believe she was studying modern dance and had been a pupil of Mary Wigman, or of one of her disciples.
▪ He was more comfortable with the straight forward physicality of another kind of modern dance that Crumb showed him.
▪ One New York season or performance a year tended to be the rule for modern dance in the 1950s.
▪ The modern dance choreographer Lucas Hoving helped performers learn how to make dances.
ritual
▪ The swords may have been ceremonial, or they may have been used in an acrobatic ritual sword dance.
▪ Other heroic figures which figure in the monthly ritual dances are equipped in the same way.
▪ Viv Richards shows his reaction at Gower's exit as the ritual dance begins.
square
▪ Red notebook Bed linen Samba square dance double duvet cover; pillowcase.
▪ Then everything reverses, as in a square dance.
▪ It may be only a matter of time before goals trigger outbreaks of mass aerobics and the odd square dance.
traditional
▪ Just how traditional the dances are is a matter for debate.
▪ Performances will include traditional harvest dance processions around the campus, along with explanations about the background of Kwanzaa.
▪ A show to bring warmth to your heart, a large measure of live music with traditional dance circle steps.
▪ Secondly the traditional dances and customs of a particular country that can give local colour and atmosphere to a plot or theme.
▪ This includes a traditional waltz dance show at the Cafe Hubner, followed by dinner in the famous wine village of Grinzing.
▪ Every country has its own way of performing the traditional dances which go hand in hand with certain musical characteristics.
NOUN
band
▪ Trumpet players in dance bands possess many different sorts of mutes with a corresponding number of resultant timbres.
▪ Mart Kenney was a perfectionist, and his high standards set an example for scores of dance bands across the country.
▪ Radio brought entertainment to a mass audience, in particular light musical entertainment: it produced the age of the great dance bands.
▪ The dance band is playing, sounds like a military tune, certainly not like the local dances back home.
▪ The first dance band at the Show Room was made up of people in the dale and they called themselves the Arcadians.
▪ This gives us an unbalanced picture of dance band and jazz arrangements today.
▪ They're a dance band with a message, pleasure politicians with some Big Ideas.
barn
▪ This will be followed by an evening barn dance.
▪ Central Birmingham Group held a barn dance which raised £200; door-to-door the group collected £1,300.
class
▪ The center also offers tap and ballroom dance classes, yoga and Chairobics, which is a low-impact exercise program.
▪ Others spoke of a lifetime of dance classes.
▪ The sessions started with a modern dance class as a warm-up.
▪ I know he had a dance class earlier, and he probably went to Topanga to surf.
▪ There was no extra money for amenities, even such necessary-seeming ones as dance classes.
▪ Holtz had suggested offering dance classes as a way of establishing both the center and the Ailey company.
▪ Tap dance classes were not an enjoyable experience for a shy and introverted child.
club
▪ Club promotion reflects the importance of dance clubs and the contribution they make towards a record's popularity.
▪ Nor is it a dance club, even though there is a dance floor and occasionally, live music.
▪ Gospel music has also become a vibrant part of the sound at the hippest dance clubs.
▪ Indeed, many Boston dance clubs find that fashion shows are their most popular events.
▪ The pressure to keep up with the passing dance club trends is rather transparent on some tracks.
▪ The investigations give a glimpse into the problems the Sheriff's Office had with policing the popular dance club.
company
▪ My spare time is spent watching the professional dance companies come through New York.
▪ Read in studio A new dance company has been formed to give a boost to the performing arts outside London.
▪ He could be sloppy about the details of running a dance company.
▪ Blueprint for success ... a New dance company starts with a flourish.
▪ Theatre groups, artists, dance companies-every venue is at risk.
dinner
▪ Her president's reception and dinner dance tomorrow night launches the main weekend of events.
▪ The Harp Hotel Àlacarte, tabled'hôte and bar snacks. Dinner dance on Saturdays.
▪ In August Sarah was invited to a dinner dance by a commercial traveller who came to the shop.
▪ Anne thought often about Sarah and her sophisticated partner on the Saturday night of the dinner dance.
▪ Cut it down, dye it red and press it into service for that next dinner dance?
▪ The season went well and the club recently held its presentation dinner dance where the trophies were awarded.
floor
▪ Enjoys windsurfing, working out at the gym and strutting his funky stuff on the dance floor.
▪ When Jack put a foot on the dance floor, some, then all couples stopped and the band trailed off.
▪ In the big middle room was a dance floor, with colored lights and a few gook couples doing the fox-trot.
▪ Putting her glass on the bar, she went on to the dance floor with him.
▪ With two conflicting styles of dancing taking place simultaneously on sometimes crowded dance floors, collisions are bound to happen.
▪ The music was loud and the dance floor full.
▪ I was running around the dance floor like a maniac.
hall
▪ The changing styles in the fifties and sixties affected this great dance hall like all the rest.
▪ In dance halls people were dancing the shimmy, the fox-trot, the Charleston.
▪ I walked inside the dance hall.
▪ When she talked to the current victims, she found they were all patrons of two very popular country music dance halls.
▪ On Saturdays in those Isle of Arran summers the picture palace became the dance hall.
▪ Here he encountered the bars and loose women and dance halls that would soon make him a famous artist.
▪ Here the taxi dance hall represented little more than clandestine prostitution.
▪ Age Concern runs tea dances, as do some local authorities, hotels and dance halls.
line
▪ A bright yellow strip of tape separated the country-western ballroom dancers from the line dance crowd.
▪ There is music -- western, of course -- and a line dance by the staff every 40 minutes.
music
▪ Until his accident, Rodrigo was the boom of 2000, provider of happy, slightly mindless dance music.
▪ When Al Jourgensen started the band in 1981, Ministry made synthesized dance music.
▪ Both zither and dance music are played once a week.
▪ The show will feature dance music by Bach, waltzes by Strauss and Tchaikovsky, and a play-along piece.
▪ Previously naff companies are suddenly revamping their image by involving themselves in dance music.
▪ At times the Crown Prince swapped the staid dance music for rather, more lively rock and roll.
▪ Later releases found her tripping nonchalantly through country &038; western, rock and dance music.
▪ When the dance music starts they play games.
routine
▪ No experience is necessary and all dance routines will be taught by the club's choreographer.
▪ It's a very young role and she has to lead the gypsy dance routine.
▪ Suzi Hoflin came in with two of her pupils and put Ingrid through a reasonable enough gypsy dance routine.
▪ To the outsider the movements of a kata resemble a dance routine.
▪ She'd rehearsed a number at her house with our choreographer the evening before, a whole dance routine.
▪ Three o'clock in the morning, bopping through a weird limb-jerking dance routine, and she looks like a child at playschool.
▪ My costume fits O.K.; the tight velvet pants worked well in the dance routine work-through this morning.
▪ I've been practising this mega dance routine.
scene
▪ Their original intentions were to break up the monotony of the London dance scene and inject a little humour and imagination.
▪ At 16, Williams dropped out of school to sing in nightclubs and the flourishing dance scene at South Side social clubs.
▪ He had scribbled notes to himself back in Los Angeles about baptismal dance scenes.
tap
▪ Every night I come in and tap dance in costumes.
▪ Where, in brief, was tap dance on the eve of millennium?
troupe
▪ A Chechenlanguage theater and national Vaikakhk dance troupe began work.
▪ No previous dance troupe manager had attacked the entertainment world so vigorously.
▪ Merce Cunningham founded his dance troupe at Black Mountain.
▪ Improvisation and ingenuity, not tradition, are the backbone of a unique dance troupe that is becoming a Tucson favorite.
VERB
begin
▪ Then Tranmere began their rain dance and the revival began.
▪ Now began an elaborate shadow dance.
▪ Angrily, she thrust herself away from the bedpost and her hands began again their energetic dance on the brightening wood.
▪ The two children began a fast stamping dance around and around, the rescued ball held aloft in triumph.
▪ Diana passed her interview and, in the spring term, began at the Vacani dance studio on the Brompton Road.
do
▪ Every third Tuesday they do the devil dance or the witch sniffing or whatever you want to call it there.
▪ A wide receiver does the same dance in the end zone and draws a penalty.
▪ Then he, Michele, and Romy do an interpretive victory dance for their former classmates.
▪ The vain girl did a little dance in them, but when she tried to stop, the shoes kept on dancing.
▪ If that friend has Netscape animation, the sonnet will do a wavy dance.
▪ Any family has to do its intricate dance together for at least twenty years and sometimes longer.
▪ He did a dance of his own after the shot went in.
hold
▪ The Spencers held a dance that weekend in his honour and it was noticeable that Sarah was enthusiastic in her attentions.
▪ Processions took place, sacrifices were held with dances and Song, there was general rejoicing.
lead
▪ It's a very young role and she has to lead the gypsy dance routine.
perform
▪ Bunched tightly together by older men in animal skins and carrying spears, they perform a ceremonial dance to insistent drumming.
▪ In the procession from Athens, as the mystae came over a bridge, people impersonating BAubo performed lewd dances before them.
▪ He began to run about in front of her, to turn, to perform grotesque dance movements that were not without some grace.
▪ The female of the species performs her mating dance.
▪ Martina and I performed the uncertain dance of people parting, with its limited steps.
▪ She performs a ritualised dance that tells the other bees the distance, direction, and quality of the food.
▪ Verrucas Children now perform dance and gymnastics lessons in bare feet.
▪ In 1990 I noticed in my community tank, a pair of Cardinal tetras performing their spawning dance.
play
▪ Lawrence was a big fifteen-year-old, and sometimes made money playing for dances in the Strasburg pool hall.
▪ Fischer was playing in dance studios, working weekends in fox-trot bands.
▪ Tom turned the radio on to a station that played dance music.
sing
▪ He says they get to sing and dance, it's fun.
▪ I have also seen them sing and dance.
▪ We like to sing and dance, we like to combine both of them.
▪ This rat wanted to eat ropes the way Gene Kelly wanted to sing and dance.
▪ They will drink, shout, sing and dance.
▪ Will mankind, even under advanced capitalism, let alone any future more liberated society, ever cease to sing and dance?
▪ Publicity officer Elizabeth Cooper said the character does not have to sing or dance.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a song and dance (about sth)
▪ Barney, he had these two sons - tried to set up a song and dance act.
▪ But to the children of Gloucestershire, it's just making a song and dance about having fun.
▪ I think most conductors would have stopped and made a song and dance.
▪ If she had wanted to stay she'd have made a song and dance, but it was better to move.
▪ Look here, there's no need to make a song and dance of it.
▪ This theme has a curious persistence, but one does not need a song and dance about it.
dance/sing/cook etc up a storm
▪ She danced up a storm at an Alexandria, Va., club where the Desperadoes played right after the election.
▪ They are blowing trumpets singing up a storm and waving as they walk past us.
lead sb a merry old dance/a right old dance
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Dances used to be held in the church hall at least once a month.
▪ Alan took Amy to the dance last weekend.
▪ Do you want to go to the dance on Saturday night?
▪ Hungarian folk dances
▪ I prefer old-fashioned dances like the waltz or the tango.
▪ May I have the next dance?
▪ school dances
▪ The Society are holding their 15th anniversary dinner dance at the Broomshill Hotel.
▪ The surprise hit of that summer was 'Macarena', which was also a dance craze.
▪ Twyla Tharpe's dance troupe
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As the dance finished we curtsied again and the Duke of Edinburgh stopped to congratulate us.
▪ Martina and I performed the uncertain dance of people parting, with its limited steps.
▪ Most black dance students of the time tended to be steered by well-meaning teachers into the more welcoming field of modern dance.
▪ The dance was loneliness and anguish laid bare.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
about
▪ Now I come to think about it, that pesky Lad was dancing about somewhere outside.
▪ When I still refused, they gave their war cry and began dancing about to frighten me.
▪ He lit a cigarette and gazed at the page of his book until the printed words ceased to dance about.
▪ Then I just forgot about dancing for good.
▪ It danced about briefly on my retinas, then disappeared.
▪ The light danced about, we were above the thin cloud line and suddenly my pains had gone.
▪ They also dance about possible new nest sites, and about water sources when water is needed to cool down the nest.
▪ His opponent was dancing about in a neutral corner, one eye on his quarry.
around
▪ Ben danced around them, still barking.
▪ He'd watch him dance around the room emitting stifled screams.
▪ I remember several moments when the trumpets played and rays of heavenly light danced around my children's heads.
▪ He danced around the area, shaking an Ascon, a gourd filled with snake vertebrae.
round
▪ It moved sinuously, dancing round its adversary, thrusting with a slender spear and protecting itself gracefully with a brightly-polished shield.
▪ I used to dance round them and sing at the top of my voice.
▪ Those watching joined hands and danced round the bonfire amid an air of frenzied excitement.
▪ The day will include dancing round the maypole by Stokesley Primary School.
▪ He could hardly dance round with him too, so he had allowed the Duke one stately dance and then reclaimed him.
▪ They made their fire on the sand and danced round it.
▪ She danced round the bigger girl, getting a few scratches down the back of her suit, even drawing some blood.
▪ You dance round and round in a circle until ... Well, everybody knows what happens in the end.
to
▪ He finds bands to dance to.
together
▪ It was natural to dance together.
▪ Just a minute ago we were dancing together.
▪ For a start, I smelt your spoor on her when we danced together at the wedding.
▪ I think we not only have enjoyed dancing together but have both been stalling because we are kind of scared.
▪ We had danced together at the Music Box while her boyfriend was away at college.
▪ We went to the dance floor and danced together, the three of us.
▪ On the other hand, I remember seeing them dancing together at a ball shortly before the birth of Prince William.
▪ We first danced together under Jeff Ritcher back in the seventies.
NOUN
ballroom
▪ First ballroom dancing, then golf, then polo and now chess.
▪ If a man has a weakness, besides an apprehension of people who enjoy ballroom dancing, it is gadgets.
▪ The children were encouraged to take ballroom and folk dancing as part of their physical training curriculum.
band
▪ The Stanford crowd surges on to the floor, waving banners, dancing to the band, inching forward to high-five the players.
▪ From three strategically located stages, well-known musical groups provide a dancing beat while roving bands serenade the crowd.
belly
▪ My belly danced with fear, in spite of the food I had just eaten.
floor
▪ As large a group as can fit has gathered in the available floor space to dance.
folk
▪ The children were encouraged to take ballroom and folk dancing as part of their physical training curriculum.
▪ Each evening at Skei there will special events such as folk dancing.
▪ Although traditional, these instruments are still used to accompany folk dances today.
▪ Similarly, she arranged and encouraged folk dancing groups in the town, monthly reading circles and visits to theatres.
▪ The participants in folk dance can and certainly do show elation.
girl
▪ It's very hard to ask the girl you adore to dance if you know your hands are running like taps.
▪ The king surmised the girls were dancing their shoes to bits and put out a general announcement to the kingdom.
▪ Yet it is the head movements of the young girl as she dances to Pie Jesu that are so telling.
▪ That night he went again and watched six girls dance in the moonlight.
▪ Dangerfield selected the thinnest girl and began dancing a waltz to the hymn-tune.
▪ A girl his age was dancing a jig to the music.
▪ A couple of girls danced enthusiastically and several others tapped their feet.
▪ Soon all the girls were dancing.
head
▪ The images swirled and danced in her head like figures around a maypole.
▪ Some managers come away from virtual reality demonstrations with unhealthy visions of holograms dancing in their heads.
▪ And though these weep Over our harms, who's to know Where their feet dance while their heads sleep?
▪ With visions of organ-pipe fruit dancing in our heads, we nod off with giant Kino Peak looming nearby.
▪ Then the stumbling run across the car park, the lights dancing wildly inside his head.
▪ She had the oddest desire to touch the dark curls that danced on his head.
▪ It is a bit like asking how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
line
▪ Gary Sheffield and Charles Johnson were leading a line of dancing players upon the podium.
music
▪ Through shouts and music and dancing we worship the Goddess with joyous bodies.
▪ There was no music, just dancing.
▪ I admired and understood his music and we danced very well together.
▪ From the other side of the footlights, Mulcahey could hear the murmuring beneath the noise of the music and the dancing.
▪ Almost always the crossing of boundaries between the sexes occurred during ecstatic rites involving loud music and wild dancing processions.
night
▪ Some nights I dance, but when I am in Cannes then I can detect.
▪ For three days and nights she danced in the streets with the crowd.
▪ They were also expected to work as crew or technicians even on nights they danced.
▪ But even they would be shocked at the idea of staying up all night dancing or taking drugs.
▪ One night, the dancing seemed to roll up like a wave and crash into our table.
▪ The bride, rising higher and higher out of her wedding dress as the night went on, danced all by herself.
people
▪ But I don't want to sing about football results or importune people to dance.
▪ Then she sat down upon a settee and watched the people dance.
▪ The people with her neither danced nor sang.
▪ The Hyatt Regency walkways collapsed while several hundred people were dancing on them.
▪ The floor had collapsed - people danced a good deal harder in those days, as the Secretary of State will no doubt remember.
▪ I remembered the people dancing in the streets when the dictator Ershad was deposed in 1990.
▪ In dance halls people were dancing the shimmy, the fox-trot, the Charleston.
song
▪ But what may have been problematic to the feet was pure pleasure to the ear, more languid song than lilting dance.
▪ Despite the wealth of songs and the dancing, despite the sacred rituals, the culture is fragile.
▪ See what the bridge was like, the one in the children's song where people were dancing and singing for ever.
▪ The first is a mixed bag of songs and dances, only a couple associated with Rivera.
▪ This theme has a curious persistence, but one does not need a song and dance about it.
▪ They sang songs and danced in the temporary bleachers.
tune
▪ Why did he get the feeling that he and Egbert were dancing to a tune?
▪ She was dancing to his tune a little too, and she was uneasily aware of it.
▪ This is how I like things - me pulling the strings, getting them to dance to my tune.
▪ But now it dances to a different tune.
▪ Now he danced to Kirov's tune, without knowing the steps.
▪ Everyone was in a circle now, dancing to a rollicking tune played by the small band, and changing partners.
▪ On the surface all is well; but the steps taken are danced to a different tune.
▪ You must learn to flow with your experience, not make others dance to your tune.
woman
▪ That woman he had danced with.
▪ Each time the music began half a dozen unsteady men wandered through the restaurant asking the women to dance.
▪ The women who danced were beautiful.
▪ One of them opened up on the table rather too naturally to reveal a beautiful woman dancing in the streets of Rio.
▪ The woman danced, short and squat, alone behind her closed eyes.
▪ And in the village of Marlott, following ancient custom, the young women gathered to dance every holiday.
▪ One of the women danced on top of three tables.
VERB
ask
▪ Each time the music began half a dozen unsteady men wandered through the restaurant asking the women to dance.
▪ I saw a blond librarian ask him to dance and begin a thing with him.
▪ That was the first thing that struck me when I asked you to dance.
▪ A guy Susan knows comes by, and asks her to dance.
▪ He asked me to dance but I said I couldn't.
▪ I started to ask her to dance and changed my mind.
▪ Maggie, Natasha and the rest of the girls went into the hall together and immediately Moira was asked to dance.
▪ How does a mythical figure ask a lady to dance?
begin
▪ They have begun to dance a strange dance.
▪ As she talked, she began to dance for him.
▪ Thus linked, with her weapons neutralised, the pair begin to dance.
▪ He was getting dressed when the building rumbled and the bedroom furniture began to dance.
▪ Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, chose his own partner too, and began to dance.
▪ When I still refused, they gave their war cry and began dancing about to frighten me.
▪ And began to dance; the embrace turned into a dance.
▪ Finally, an hour late, they arrived, and everyone began dancing.
learn
▪ Apparently the ballerina Pavlova came here to learn to dance like a swan for the ballet Swan Lake.
▪ I soon learned to dance, beginning with other girls as partners.
▪ If the rug is pulled from beneath your feet, learn to dance on a shifting carpet.
sing
▪ He neither sang nor danced, but with his six or seven years could already dominate both the public and his brothers.
▪ The people roused the protector spirit of the sun, Nga Bal, by singing, dancing, and playing their instruments.
▪ It's more than being able to sing and dance.
▪ But a play interspersed with singing and dancing.
▪ But Lady Macbeth and Portia were not called upon to sing and dance.
▪ They sang and shouted and danced and prayed and raised their hands in thanksgiving.
▪ There was I, singing and dancing all over the place.
▪ He sings and dances to that one along with Mark Harmon, Curtis-Hall and Elizondo.
start
▪ Yesterday, he wrote, it started to dance for me again.
▪ A rock group record had replaced the melancholy singers, and a few couples had started to dance.
▪ She has a large whisky and ginger and starts to dance again.
▪ Across the bleachers, the Oregon band puts down its instruments and starts dancing in the aisles.
▪ Some folks in the back have even started to dance.
want
▪ The young kids want to dance and have fun, they don't want all heavy stuff.
▪ This was not because I didn't want to dance but because I had not yet learned how to do it properly.
▪ Then he asked Primo if he wanted to dance with Deedee and Primo said no.
▪ He wanted to dance, but could see no opportunity of so doing.
▪ He wanted to dance with her all night.
▪ A young female wants to dance and enjoy herself, I know.
▪ I wanted to dance with him and celebrate the renewal of our friendship.
watch
▪ Then she sat down upon a settee and watched the people dance.
▪ Lustful travellers came from all over the world to watch him dance, naked except for a silk cap atop his curls.
▪ I kept watching you dancing out there.
▪ As a solitary concession, non-Brahmins were permitted to watch them dance.
▪ In California Plaza, you can dine while watching the dancing fountain.
▪ He'd watch him dance around the room emitting stifled screams.
▪ That night he went again and watched six girls dance in the moonlight.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a song and dance (about sth)
▪ Barney, he had these two sons - tried to set up a song and dance act.
▪ But to the children of Gloucestershire, it's just making a song and dance about having fun.
▪ I think most conductors would have stopped and made a song and dance.
▪ If she had wanted to stay she'd have made a song and dance, but it was better to move.
▪ Look here, there's no need to make a song and dance of it.
▪ This theme has a curious persistence, but one does not need a song and dance about it.
dance/sing/cook etc up a storm
▪ She danced up a storm at an Alexandria, Va., club where the Desperadoes played right after the election.
▪ They are blowing trumpets singing up a storm and waving as they walk past us.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Everyone got up and danced.
▪ I have an old photo of my parents dancing a waltz.
▪ If you like dancing to drum and bass, come to the Coven on Saturday night.
▪ Nakamura danced several solos in the "Nutcracker Suite."
▪ She danced with the San Francisco Ballet for six years.
▪ The disco starts at 11pm so you can dance the night away.
▪ Will you dance with me?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A party of enthusiasts danced a quadrille on a flat rock near the middle of the stream.
▪ He doesn't dance on his own for long.
▪ She danced and danced, at one point passing by the funeral of the kind old woman.
▪ She had arrived with her parents some time ago but seemed to be dancing with a matador.
▪ She only wanted him to go on dancing till he dropped.
▪ They dance off into the cosmos.
▪ They responded by dancing with their tongues tucked happily into their cheeks.
▪ Two or three couples began to dance.

dance

I. dance¹ S2 W3 /dɑːns $ dæns/ noun
1. [COUNTABLE]
a special set of movements performed to a particular type of music:
　 ▪ The waltz is an easy dance to learn.
folk/traditional dance
　 ▪ the traditional dances and music of Russia

2. [COUNTABLE]
a social event or party where you dance:
　 ▪ Are you going to the dance this weekend?
　 ▪ the school dance

3. [COUNTABLE]
an act of dancing:
　 ▪ Claire did a little dance of excitement.
have a dance especially British English:
　 ▪ Let’s have another dance.

4. [COUNTABLE]
a piece of music which you can dance to:
　 ▪ The band was playing a slow dance.

5. [UNCOUNTABLE]
the activity or art of dancing:
　 ▪ modern dance
　 ▪ dance and movement classes
⇨ song and dance about something at song(4), ⇨ lead somebody a dance at lead¹(19)
• • •
COLLOCATIONS
adjectives
▪a traditional dance
　 ▪ The drum is often used in Africa to accompany traditional dances.
▪a folk dance (=typical of the ordinary people who live somewhere)
　 ▪ This is one of the oldest folk dances in Greece.
▪a national dance
　 ▪ The Tango is Argentina’s national dance.
verbs
▪do a dance
　 ▪ Can you do any dances?
▪perform a dance
　 ▪ We watched the group perform some traditional Spanish dances.
dance + NOUN
▪a dance routine/sequence (=a set of movements that are part of a dance)
　 ▪ She was practising a complicated dance routine.
▪a dance step (=a movement in a dance)
　 ▪ Lou was teaching me a few dance steps.
▪dance music
　 ▪ A small band was playing dance music.
▪a dance floor (=special floor for people to dance on)
▪a dance band (=playing music that people can dance to)
　 ▪ a professional dance band
• • •
THESAURUS
▪dance an organized social event where people to go dance :
　 ▪ The dance will be held in the school gym.
▪ball a large formal occasion where people dance :
　 ▪ The University holds a ball at the end of June.
▪prom a formal dance party for high school students, especially in the US, usually held at the end of a school year :
　 ▪ Who’s your date for the prom?
▪formal American English a dance at which you must wear formal clothes :
　 ▪ He rented a tuxedo to wear to his company’s holiday formal.
▪disco a place or social event where people dance to recorded popular music :
　 ▪ She met Nick at a school disco.
▪club/nightclub a place where people go at night to dance :
　 ▪ We went out for dinner and then to a club.

II. dance² S2 W3 verb
[date : 1200-1300; Language : Old French; Origin : dancier]
1. [INTRANSITIVE AND TRANSITIVE]
to move your feet and body in a way that matches the style and speed of music:
　 ▪ Come on, let’s dance.
dance to
　 ▪ They danced to Ruby Newman’s orchestra (=the orchestra was playing).
dance with
　 ▪ The bride danced with her father.
dance a waltz/rumba/tango etc

2. [INTRANSITIVE AND TRANSITIVE]
to dance in performances, especially in ballet:
　 ▪ He danced with the Boston Repertory Ballet.
　 ▪ Nakamura dances several solos in this production.

3. [INTRANSITIVE]
literary to move up, down, and around quickly:
　 ▪ Pink and white balloons danced in the wind.

4. dance to sb’s tune
to do what someone wants you to do – used to show disapproval:
　 ▪ At that time, Eastern bloc countries danced to the Soviet tune.

5. dance attendance on somebody
to do everything possible in order to please someone:
　 ▪ a movie star with several young men dancing attendance on her

—dancing noun [UNCOUNTABLE]:
　 ▪ the beauty of her dancing