court dance
Americannoun
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The company will present a wealth of traditional works, including Kete, an elegant court dance from the Eastern and Ashanti regions instilled with reverence and dignity.
From New York Times • May 25, 2023
McCormick, 35, grew up in Santa Barbara, Calif., where he studied ballet and baroque court dance, taking private lessons from Regine Astier, a renowned authority on the dances of 17th-century France.
From Washington Post • Dec. 20, 2018
Appraising an abstract expressionist work that’s a snarl of snaking lines, Lionel steps forward and backward, forward and backward, as if engaged in a court dance.
From Washington Post • May 17, 2016
They gave him a novel idea: Why not apply the technique of the classic Western ballet to the spirit and music of Bugaku, the Japanese court dance?
From Time Magazine Archive
I have seen some of them, after being sentenced by the court, dance for hours, calling out continuously, "Did I not tell you all, the biggest rogues get off the best?"
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 551, June 9, 1832 by Various
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