How To Use Dancer In A Sentence

But a couple of months ago, in a Times Square studio, congas were pounding out Afro-Cuban rhythms, dancers in high heels were twirling to fast-paced mambos, and just about everyone in sight was a shade of brown.
Gorgeous in a seemingly effortless Kate Hudson/Blake Lively kind of way, her future calling dawned on her when she saw her dad performing on stage and became enamored with the costumes the dancers were wearing. Buzzine » Stacey Oristano
When both the chorus and the dancers are on the steps they cannot be told apart.
His father was a hairdresser and beautician, his mother an astrologer and former dancer who also acted as a promoter for women's wrestling. Times, Sunday Times
Its choreography is dense with invention, its dancers project a fine fierce physicality and an alert, emotional presence. Stephen Petronio Company – review

Dancers aged from five to adults will perform their own version of the Tchaikovsky classic and also a mix of tap and modern dance.
She was not a good dancer, just a dancer, just a chorus girl.
And if that doesn't make you happy, there's always Sabrina's story of organizing young women dancers to go on strike against an MTV sexploitation video.
Then back to the city and its vivid smells, the wail of tzigane orchestras, the little dancer of the Orpheum - what was her name?
Singers, musicians, dancers and storytellers are always appreciated on St. Patrick's Day.
He's a dancer with the Royal Ballet.
Hip-hop rose in urban centers, launched by breakdancers and carried forward by emcees, DJs and graffiti artists.
The program ended with a free-spirited coda by all the dancers doing this, that, and especially the other, all with happy bravura and to Tchaikovsky.
They are born artists: dancers who writhe rhythmically; musicians - singing intervals long before they speak language.
a dedicated dancer
Also on the program that night were the Marshall Dancers from the Lower Yukon, dressed in sumptuous headdresses that were trimmed with wolf and beaver fur.
One time, not too long ago, I saw a line of lame dancers unable to participate in class, sitting on the sidelines, questioning when they would return to dance.
Shizuko is a famous tango dancer and deferential wife, who is kidnapped by yakuza as payment for her businessman husband's debts.
She is a pole dancer at London's famous Spearmint Rhino club.
The dance needs close coordination between two dancers.
It was an extraordinary time for a young person like Alvin, black and a dancer, to arrive in New York.
Kleiber even goes so far as to move the last act's entr'acte right into the middle of the choruses which open that act, providing the flamenco dancers with another opportunity to strut their stuff.
Dancers have only one and a half minutes in the interlude to change clothes.
A chicken nibbled on smashed watermelon, and dancers swam in a plastic water flume, and a fake walrus lumbered across the stage.
These restrictions drastically reduce the chances of good Argentine tango dancers being able to enter the country. Times, Sunday Times
It was a party where everyone enjoys themselves; there is something for everybody whether you're a drinker or not, a dancer or a laid back kind of person; you surely won't feel left out in his party.
Dancers may want to vary their physical experience in order to prevent overuse injuries such as tendinitis.
A dancer from the hip-hop world would show me pops and boogaloos and all that.
He was kicking his legs like a Can Can dancer.
This brilliant wheel, justly called a splendor, is attached to a conical cap on the head of the dancer, held by a ribbon or kerchief tied under the chin. Did You Know? Quetzal Dancers in Puebla, Mexico
Given the circumstances, Bouder gave an incredibly polished rendition of the role, weaving the choreographic phrases into a dancerly whole with clarity and detail.
And if it be my Alpha and Omega that everything heavy shall become light, everybody a dancer, and every spirit a bird: and verily, that is my Alpha and Omega! Thus Spake Zarathustra
The morrice dancers accordingly set out upon their further progress, dancing and carolling as they went along to the sound of four musicians, who led the joyous band, while Simon Glover drew their coryphaeus into his house, and placed him in a chair by his parlour fire. The Fair Maid of Perth
A white boy dancer must deliver an impotent, but ironic, rendering of White's (love unlimited) orchestration of potent sexuality.
He invited these two professional female dancer friends of his to tag along.
Bikini-clad dancers writhe onstage at a swinger's club in their best '80s music-video impersonation.
There are stadiums, museums, theater, dancery, bowling alley and sauna center etc. in the county.
Salma Hayek plays an exotic dancer whose act involves a giant snake in this Quentin Tarantino / Robert Rodriguez team-up ...
The cipher becomes a dancer. Times, Sunday Times
On development, the negative and subsequent positive reveal a composite image of the dancer performing in the street.
Unfortunately it was merely the not inconsiderable technical prowess of his dancers that Page showed off in his emotionally inexpressive choreography.
Too few dancers seem to me to have even a decent sense of rhythm, let alone demonstrate musical understanding.
The dancers all look like they're more suited to stomping on grapes in a vineyard.
And what of the male dancer, historically marginalized but increasingly interesting on both the dance and fashion front? The Times Literary Supplement
These would simultaneously raise the caliber of its repertoire and extend the range of its dancers beyond the loveliness that, in art, is simply not enough.
Traditional dancers have condemned a move which could lead to them being prosecuted for racism.
So he turned to Micheline Bernardini, an exotic dancer at the Casino de Paris, who had no qualms about appearing nearly nude in public.
You know, like the ones you and my brothers bestow willy-nilly on every taproom maid, doxy, and opera dancer in your acquaintance. How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
Choreographed to the 1947 Stravinsky score, Orpheus cleverly deploys six dancers to dramatise the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, with a chorus of living characters (Orpheus's friends/chorus) and the inhabitants of the underworld (Death and Furies). This week's new dance
He still looks like the dancer he no longer is, after hanging up his tights in the spring of 2000.
The harlequin is enamoured of a young dancer who has been forced to marry the proprietor of the troupe.
It will include floats, vintage cars, majorettes, stilt walkers, dancers and music.
It is the intense hunger for soul food, soulful music, spirited dance, and wild, ecstatic, celebrative praise, whether it be voiced by the ghosts of former African slaves on Congo Square or by the choirs of old-time Black Churches, or the bands backing Second Line dancers, or the street music in dialogue with window shoppers and feast-ready patrons. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
Narrative dance applies to those phrases of conversation between individuals or between dancers and public, where the dancer uses explicit gestures.
A dancer must throw herself heart and soul into every performance.
Images includes those of vivid rehearsals as well as behind-the-scenes pictures of seminal company personalities such as Margot Fonteyn and Ninette de Valois, plus never-before-seen views of the dancers off duty, most charmingly a snap of Lynn Seymour and Rudolf Nureyev, drinking in a London pub. This week's new dance
He's bringing contemporary works to Los Angeles, including Christopher Wheeldon's 2006 "DGV," originally created for the Royal Ballet; a new piece, "Epimetheus," by Russell Ducker, from Britain, a company member; and "Solea," a pas de deux for Mr. Corella and his sister created by the flamenco dancer María Pagés, and. Debra Levine: Ballet's Angel Corella Looks Ahead ... and Back
I'm a hopeless dancer. I've got two left feet.
To determine the extent of their external rotation, dancers should stand in first position with straight knees and no rolling over.
Audiences are led on a tour and entertained along the way by singers, dancers and storytellers and are given the opportunity to speak to residents.
Her performance as waitress/dancer is perplexingly bad. The Sun
Both her parents were musical; her mother was a singer and dancer and her father played the saxophone. Times, Sunday Times
I'm not pretending that the switch is going to be all magic, that the first day in the studio not as a dancer is going to be easy.
The dancers are dressed as both doctors and patients and what unfolds feels like a clinical examination. Times, Sunday Times
Later a noted modern dancer, actress and teacher, de Lavallade began early on to attract attention.
He was untutored and a little old for a beginning dancer.
She sort of floats around, like a ballet dancer.
THERE is no slowing down for the glam American burlesque dancer as she heads through her fifth decade. The Sun
Fringe photographer and subculture chronicler Charles Gatewood quickly added mess to his extreme repertoire, and New York nightclubs began splattering their go-go dancers with liquid latex.
What do agentive nouns such as singer, dancer, murderer, walker, speaker, and many more, have in common?
All of the Royal Dancers and some of the courtiers would be participating, the courtiers as a kind of untrained, minimally-moving background to the Dancers, all two hundred of them, who were schooled from the time they were five and performed until they were deemed too old to be decorative. The White Gryphon
The brutally direct communications engendered by youthful, student audiences tend to endear them to dancers.
As well as the usual dancing, there will be a special demonstration by Laucinda and her sister, who is a semi-professional dancer, the details of which are being kept a surprise until the night.
The acts will be able to polish up their routines on mats and screens which provide dancers with steps to follow while playing a particular song.
They draw back their bows once more and hope to find love - and a dream holiday - for a personal trainer and a burlesque dancer. The Sun
She is wearing a figure-hugging white bodice and tight ski pants which perfectly show off her dancer's figure and dark colouring.
The so-called 'golden generation' of sports-based pro-celebrity dancers lies in ruins. Times, Sunday Times
He keeps wandering into minor subplots, about a flamenco dancer and a dancing doctors demonstration.
She started as a dancer in the 1950s.
Caroline toughed it out at first, not wanting to miss practice with her Irish stepdancing team, the Aoibhneas an Rince Dancers. Doctors at Children's Hospital remove a cyst, and pain, from a young dancer
It tells of the bayadère (temple dancer) Nikiya who loves the warrior Solor.
So it's funny to be very habituated to watching regular wildebeests which are kind of gruff and intense looking and tough, and then come across the back wildebeests and watch them stotting around the landscape like, in comparison to the regular model gnu, dancers in a Baz Luhrmann production. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
Their discography is a rich one, but this three CD set with the debut, Dancer With Bruised Knees and a third CD of demos and unreleased tracks is the ideal place to start. Michael Giltz: Music: Revenge Of The Seventies Singer-Songwriter!
The dancers leading the procession were in colourful and elaborate costumes.
The two-minute Fringe-for-all promo for this show had three belly dancers, but in reality this seems to be a one-woman show.
The dancers who were making money in Broadway shows did not hesitate to chip in to meet emergency expenses.
The Wardandi Dreaming Dancers are bringing back traditional dance culture and inviting other Aboriginal dance groups to join them in corroborees in their tribal lands, which take place in the Margaret River Region in WA's south-west.
Alison and Rachel pushed there way through the crowd of dancers in the club to the other side of the small room where the washrooms were situated.
The impressive cast of 18 dancers and drummers combine pantsula and tap with Tswana and gumboot dancing and the rhythmic beat of drums.
He gestures, gesticulates, and moves with the grace of a dancer.
The rise and fall of the dancers' bodies create a pattern.
Throughout the fall tour, the dancers shaped their plans, meeting in places like late-night restaurants.
He's a good dancer but at times needs to be careful with his steps. The Sun
Sandra trained as a dancer and worked as a theatre set painter and then a trapeze artist.
Both were, of course, memorable events which used spectacular fireworks, acrobats, singers, dancers and musicians to showcase the city to the world.
There is a beauty to the troupes of dancers and actors, but writers have a different fate.
Dancers jammed a floor of flashing disco lights. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
Naharin makes his impact using straight-to-the-heart music and spine-tingling unison phrases from his reckless dancers.
The dancers say they find their work empowering, and post-feminists think that's just fantastic.
JONAH BOKAER'S new "Anchises," which features an intriguing set of collaborators; the design group Harrison Atelier, a commissioned score by Loren Dempster, and the former Cunningham dancer Valda Setterfield, who should never be missed. NYT > Home Page
Morris men, belly dancers and musicians jigged and played for an estimated 30,000 people.
Most oil paintings and pencil sketches portrayed women, classical dancers and children in different perspectives.
If you have someone like her, the other dancers can see that there is somebody whom they can emulate.
So he offs a go-go dancer with a toxic rose and shoots a stripper with a blowgun.
Of course, the appeal of a given dance also depends on the caller being able to teach the figures and the dancers being able to execute them!
The film is about street dancers joining up with classical performers to become the UK's top dance act. The Sun
The goal is to get dancers and nondancers alike to support their neighborhood dance studios, so the central focus will be on open studio events.
And just lagging it slightly was the image of the posed dancer.
The dancer described vividly the coming of Vishnu as Narasimha to protect his bhakta Prahlada.
He is the sun; the other dancers orbit around him. Times, Sunday Times
Dancers, madly dancing; silhouetted druidic gestures; pale ass-cleft of hippie maiden, vibrant in the dusk. Woodstock Nation
She gained international fame as a dancer.
Did you know the burlesque dancer 's also a designer these days? Times, Sunday Times
A line of male dancers gyrated to the music while the audience screamed their appreciation.
Set to Rossini's titular score, it chivvies and inspires its dancers to delicious extremes of virtuosity, extravagantly sustained poses, scintillating footwork and wicked speeds. This week's new dance
Once thought of as something only for little old ladies pool calestetics, water dancercize and water motion classes are gaining popularity with serious athletes.
The first part comprises three women and a male dancer in a giant white hoop skirt who appears to be playing a Chinese flute. Times, Sunday Times
Anchises" isn't Mr. Bokaer's first experience involving senior dancers. NYT > Home Page
Being a burlesque dancer wasn't as glamorous as folk singing suddenly is. The Sun
Unlike you, I'm not a great dancer.
Rodiya girls wander the country as dancers and jugglers, and their erect figures, elastic step, and regalness of carriage, would be envied by the proudest woman promenading Vanity Fair; some of them have faces so perfect in a classic way that a sculptor or painter might make himself famous by reproducing them. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan
This is the second year the collective put on the elaborate tap show that involves dancers and studios from all over the Lower Mainland.
Yvette Gilbert, the songstress of the vile, the recitationist of the vulgar, and Le Loie Fuller, the dancer of the serpentine, live off the fat of the land every day. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
Astaire, a professional dancer from the age of 7, did all of his own choreography, and he was as exacting about corrections as the most persnickety repetiteur.
Havana produced Carlos Acosta, now a member of the Royal Ballet, the world's number one male dancer.
It was a very controlled and contained piece, the dancers seldom moving from outside a small circle of light.
In the second act, Colker's sleek, scantily-clad dancers writhe seductively in and out of a clear plastic tank.
Elsewhere, many landowners funded their own troupes of serf dancers, performing folk and ballet.
The Scottish charmer will make the perfect super-slick lawyer in this kiss-and-tell tale of Roxie Hart, a nightclub dancer who kills her lover.
A good rider, like a good ballet dancer, needs to be the right shape.
The dancers, arrayed in awe-inspiring costumes and hideous masks, enact weird rituals before the village shrine.
At the beginning of the show, the dancers approached the audience with tape recorders and brusquely asked us to give our names.
Black dancers fared even worse in classical ballet.
The quartet begins with the dancers - dressed in everyday clothes, but colorful so as not to be dull under stage lights - standing in a square formation along a slight diagonal.
This quartet featured a stunning, slashing, angry modern-dance dialogue between two dancers, then a requiem for fallen comrades.
Her mum was a belly dancer and the third of his five wives. The Sun
It's about the human body, so the actors and dancers are often naked.
The slightly built dancer was described as ‘a professional dare devil, machine gun chatterer and blithe defier of the laws of physics’.
He denies feeling more paternal towards the dancers these days, but owns up to " avuncular".
I was determined to be a professional dancer, and practised for hours every day.
The first hour or so is usually slower cha-cha music to give dancers a chance to warm up and allow beginners to practice at a comfortable speed.
Standing in first position, dancers tendu to second to show alignment and placement.
Its style of performance and expression change repeatedly throughout each ballet as the dancer changes with the attendant circumstances.
He co-starred with Russian dancer/actor Mikhail Baryshnikov in White Nights, a movie that had the two acting and dancing.
They are referenced in this faux-primitive romp fashioned for nine dancers in briefs or skimpy bathing suits.
His technique and his dramatic personality made him by far the greatest dancer I had seen at that time.
I have some friends from high school who are beautiful semi-pro dancers.
Nikiya, the temple dancer heroine of Petipa's La Bayadère Thu to 13 Aug, pits her passion for the warrior Solor against the implacable powers of religion and royalty. This week's new dance
a slim straight-backed dancer
Dancers have a predominant role in this performance.
Simon's search leads him to a strip club, where all the dancers sport astonishingly fake breasts.
Three dancers representing twilight, darkness and full - moon create a wonderland of charm.
Six dancers utilised a variety of costume changes, arguably too many, to journey through the enormity of the past.
There are two pairs of dancers on stage, one dressed in red, one dressed in pale grey.
CONTRERAS: The dresses on display are all variations on a traditional style worn by rumba dancers called bata Cubana. Celia Cruz: Her Life and Music
With a melee of artists, dancers, musicians and bands, the crowds gathered to enjoy the sunshine and take part in the festivities.
Pay me what her clothes cost," cried the ropedancer at last, "and you may take her. Fifty Famous Stories Retold
His previous girlfriend was a dancer with the Royal Ballet.
However the rousing spectacle of so many dancers performing heroic choreography in unison should not be missed, even if it does not bear repeated viewing.
The dancers no longer performed for the spectatorial look but rather, engaged with the crowd in immediate exchange.
Reading Room is a touring theatrical encounter between a group of dancers and one high-profile actor per performance. Times, Sunday Times
Of course, a dancer can't really hang in the air.
In 1986 Pryor himself directed and starred in the semi-autobiographical tale, Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling.
I know dancers are very limber and flexible, what happens if I can never do a split?
She is currently putting a group together and gigging around Dublin with the intention of making it as a singer and dancer in the United States.
For me, being able to truthfully say that I wasn’t in any way connected to the sex industry in Rhode Island (besides knowing a lot of dancers, escorts, and spa workers as friends or neighbors) was crucial in making the point that the belief that the activity should be decriminalized is in the mainstream, and that it jives with normal peoples’ values. Relevancy of Client Status « Bound, Not Gagged
Ballet and concert dancers are at the low end of the pay scale.
Roughly around midnight the disco music stopped and a chain of exotic dancers paraded onto the floor.
Kudos to this dancer for thinking beyond the customary perception of affording Rama the superlative prowess; thereby questioning his viability to be worshipped.
In her place was her understudy, Miss Lisa Fennell, a young dancer usually seen in the chorus.
The upper and lower halves of this box correspond not to waist up and waist down, but to left and right on the dancer's body.
Initiated by the dancer in the center of the trio, the three performers reach their arms out to one another with a mechanical slowness.
Any performers are welcome to share their skills at the open mike session - musicians, dancers, poets, puppeteers, raconteurs and actors.
The dancer was adorned with flowers.
Mrs Fanning had broken the spell of the wild and beautiful dancers.
Plaques were given to dancers who gained most points at feiseanna during the year.
The Customs agent thought he looked like a fancy mambo dancer. INCA GOLD
She had a strong desire to be a dancer but failed to make the grade.
This year, Wheeldon made another new piece, After the Rain, to mark the retiral of one of NYCB's best-loved dancers, Jock Soto.
The paper is written in the character of a travelling and philosophical American, who pours forth his thoughts on the opera; the topics being the deterioration of music as an art, the small beneficial result that follows so much outlay and such a combination of artistical skill, the amount of training bestowed on the singers and dancers, greater than that which produces great men, and the company before the curtain, together with reflections thereanent. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
The dancer was poised on one foot.
It comes alive at night with capoeira dancers, impromptu football matches and strolling locals. Times, Sunday Times
On the other hand Calsy had more of a ballet dancer's with his flowing and graceful moves as he nailed each step at the exact time he was told.
Still, dancers who are growing can offset injuries, to some degree, by adding floor barres and other body conditioning activities (such as Pilates) to increase strength.
Never having met Coetzee, he embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to him – a married woman with whom he had an affair, his favourite cousin Margot, a Brazilian dancer whose daughter had English lessons with him, former friends and colleagues. Summertime and J.M. Coetzee on Beauty and Consolation
The focal figure of the film is Annette Corley, a dancer who has boyfriend troubles.
The company is made up of dancers who usually come from smaller companies, lured by the possibility of dancing solo roles. The Times Literary Supplement
As a dancer, he is second to none .
She recently graduated from being a dancer to having a small role in a movie.
It is important that a dancer have a good facility, but they need to be able convey dramatic ideas, use dramatic gestures, and communicate feelings on stage.
Even before the overture starts, there is a silent ballet, characterised by odd tics and jerks: the eight dancers appear to be convulsed by supernatural forces greater than themselves.
The Customs agent thought he looked like a fancy mambo dancer. INCA GOLD
The example shown is ornamented with concentric bands of decoration around a group of folk dancers in the central roundel.
Clever staging meant that we were backstage - the curtain and footlights downstage - watching the dancers warm up and interact before a show.
She was looking for work as a dancer and nightclub hostess. Times, Sunday Times
The primary occupant, originally installed on a green bier, was arrayed like a dancer, with bell-like ornaments made of shells and "clappers" made of canine teeth. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
Williamson possesses a deep, sardonic baritone that makes for a curious counterpoint to his exuberant indie-pop dancercise routines.
All the dancers come on stage during the grand finale.
Without hesitation Seal Team Bob bulled into the crowd, tossing dancers to both sides of him.
The film was a smash hit and the dancers have high hopes that the ballet version of the drama will repeat that success in China.

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