dances

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The music consisted of a bandolon, a harp, and fiddle, and the dances were the waltz, the _bolero_, and the _coona_.

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  1. intransitive verb To move rhythmically usually to music, using prescribed or improvised steps and gestures.
  2. intransitive verb To leap or skip about excitedly.
  3. intransitive verb To appear to flash or twinkle: eyes that danced with merriment.

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  • "German dances were always performed, and over the years people just started calling the dances 'the Germans,' which is how our name evolved to the German Club." —  The Roanoke Times: Home page
  • Latin American dances, salsa is fun and easy to learn. —  News on www.kyivpost.com
  • Sunday, April 26, at LaSells Stewart Center, 875 S.W. 26th St. This unusual concert will feature the three virtuoso pianists in rotating duos, performing on two Steinway concert grand pianos, in a dynamic program that begins with the Mozart Sonata for Two Pianos, and includes Ravel's "La Valse," a transcription for two pianos of Leonard Bernstein's "Symphonic Dances from West Side Story" and three traditional Latin American dances for two pianos by William Bolcom.
  • All the etiquette and form of the ancien régime obtained here--the furniture, the dress, the cookery, the dances were all French In the American town the likeness to Mobile was very marked, in the manners and style of the people. —  Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
  • He reproduced in his theatrical war-dances, scalp-dances, and so on, incidents which he had seen in real life. —  What Is Man? and Other Essays
 

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