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  • noun Alternative spelling of nondance.
  • adjective Alternative spelling of nondance.

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Examples

  • "I'm looking forward to reaching a larger audience—a non-dance audience," he said on Monday.

    Expatriate Dancer Returns for Colbert Pia Catton 2011

  • The composer and musician and his fellow appointee Michael Hull, the experimental lighting designer, are the first non-dance associates the theatre has ever had and they are joined by Kate Prince, the choreographer behind the hip-hop troupe ZooNation.

    Nitin Sawhney to become associate director at Sadler's Wells 2010

  • If you are a performer and you'd like to share the stage, we have room for another act, so long as it's non-dance.

    Scent and Sensibility yuki_onna 2009

  • SYDELL: Like a lot of dancers, Johnson earns a living doing a lot of non-dance work.

    For California Dancemaker, It's All Step By Step 2009

  • But in some ways he resembles Busby Berkeley, who was not a great choreographer in the technical sense actually he wasn't even a particularly good choreographer but who was amazingly good at choreographing non-dance movements, both of the performers and the camera.

    Snap, Snap, Shuffle, Shuffle, Snap Jaime J. Weinman 2006

  • Fosse's specialty was making sure that everything -- the dance steps, the non-dance movements, the lighting, the dance arrangements -- worked together to create the same effect; he was one of those choreographers who choreographed everybody, not just the dancers.

    Snap, Snap, Shuffle, Shuffle, Snap Jaime J. Weinman 2006

  • But in some ways he resembles Busby Berkeley, who was not a great choreographer in the technical sense actually he wasn't even a particularly good choreographer but who was amazingly good at choreographing non-dance movements, both of the performers and the camera.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2006

  • Fosse's specialty was making sure that everything -- the dance steps, the non-dance movements, the lighting, the dance arrangements -- worked together to create the same effect; he was one of those choreographers who choreographed everybody, not just the dancers.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2006

  • She does that knees apart, bobbing non-dance that is so common ... and ugly.

    "American Idol" -- the "girls" again. Ann Althouse 2005

  • While it may be easy to write off his sound as some aforementioned buzzword, Congorock invades dance floors with absolutely grimy hoover synth and pounding bass kicks enough to convert the most rigid of non-dance fans.

    Chicagoist Jake Guidry 2010

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