noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ballet dancer
exotic dancer
go-go dancer
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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People said black dancers don't have the right body, the right feet.
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She understood, however, that Alvin was committed to providing work for black dancers .
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In the total absence of black dancers , Covent Garden lags behind other ballet companies in the West.
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A small group of black dancers picketed the theater for two days, carrying placards and occasionally shouting slogans.
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They are living evidence of the past lack of opportunity for black classical dancers in this country.
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But for black dancers and choreographers, this was a time to push ahead.
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He found it hard at first to believe that black dancers were as welcome as they seemed.
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It was an extraordinary time for a young person like Alvin, black and a dancer , to arrive in New York.
good
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They were both good dancers and gradually the other couples drifted off the floor and stood in a circle watching them.
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She was not a good dancer , just a dancer, just a chorus girl.
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She was a pretty girl with fair curly hair and brown eyes, very self-possessed and a good dancer .
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Not only did Alvin know nothing about choreography, Shawn wrote, but he was not even a good dancer .
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A good rider, like a good ballet dancer , needs to be the right shape.
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Horton told him that he had a chance of becoming a good dancer .
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Naturally, it was mainly the best dancers who went abroad to work.
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Q.. Do you think you are better singers or dancers ?
male
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He became like a male ballet dancer - a support to lift up his glamorous partner and help her turn beautiful pirouettes.
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She was a good ham, bumping her hips up against the male dancers and rolling her eyes.
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I lift her soft and easy as a male ballet dancer would lift Giselle.
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The men were big and virile and unlike any other male dancers he had ever seen.
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A male dancer crosses the stage, and Chaland follows him out of the auditorium.
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Can you name any other dance organization in which a male dancer substitutes for a female without raising a ruffle?
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He got into the company because one of its few experienced male dancers , George Gerhardt, was leaving.
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He is more spectacular in sheer technique than any other male dancer .
modern
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Although some modern dancers do without music in the accepted sense of that term, they rarely do without rhythmic phrasing.
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Now there was an Ailey company for modern dancers .
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Later a noted modern dancer , actress and teacher, de Lavallade began early on to attract attention.
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Pure-minded modern dancer that he was, Alvin politely declined.
professional
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I was determined to be a professional dancer .
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Most knew each other as part of the small but growing group of black professional dancers in New York.
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He also described the four types of professional dancer whom he used in his ballets.
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Alvin found himself drawn back to Melrose Avenue, although he was still undecided about becoming a professional dancer .
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Their choice of collaborators has ranged from the Wirral Youth Theatre to local professional dancers .
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June's husband Ralph is an air-filtration engineer and her daughter Jill is a professional dancer and secretary.
topless
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No topless dancers , no hard drugs, no trial.
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Nikita and the other topless dancers in town are worried.
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Dallas Cowboys receiver Michael Irvin gets caught in a hotel room with two topless dancers and a mobile pharmacy.
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One succeeded, so that the drinkers of Corona can see topless dancers touch themselves.
young
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In her place was her understudy, Miss Lisa Fennell, a young dancer usually seen in the chorus.
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He became friendly with a young singer and dancer named Marguerite Angelos, later known as the writer Maya Angelou.
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While auditioning for the show, Lloyd Webber met a young dancer from the chorus line, Sarah Brightman.
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The young dancer put a stop to our writing, as I had expected.
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The harlequin is enamoured of a young dancer who has been forced to marry the proprietor of the troupe.
■ NOUN
ballet
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I felt weightless, light as a ballet dancer .
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He is a sensational, irresistible presence who has the composure and concentration of a ballet dancer .
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He became like a male ballet dancer - a support to lift up his glamorous partner and help her turn beautiful pirouettes.
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I lift her soft and easy as a male ballet dancer would lift Giselle.
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Poor Brady, a ballet dancer in a bearpit.
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Look at her, May jeered, nodding over the road, thinks she's a ballet dancer .
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A ballet dancer who does not practise every day loses a lot of skill, as does a musician.
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I get as big a kick out of watching Seb on the top curve as I do watching a ballet dancer .
ballroom
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A bright yellow strip of tape separated the country-western ballroom dancers from the line dance crowd.
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Longbine said line dancers have concluded that repeated dance floor collisions were acts of aggression by the ballroom dancers.
belly
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Tables of the Merciful are also set up across the country by the armed forces, businesses and belly dancers .
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Why, a room full of belly dancers , of course.
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The festivities last week started with Christmas music and ended, much later, with belly dancers and congratulations all around.
line
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Dancers say tension between ballroom and line dancers who compete for dance floor space has existed for years.
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Longbine said line dancers have concluded that repeated dance floor collisions were acts of aggression by the ballroom dancers.
■ VERB
become
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The schoolgirl had planned to become a dancer .
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Alvin found himself drawn back to Melrose Avenue, although he was still undecided about becoming a professional dancer .
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Horton told him that he had a chance of becoming a good dancer .
dance
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The dancers would dance , the mannequin would shiver and give birth to the green girl.
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He keeps wandering into minor subplots, about a flamenco dancer and a dancing doctors demonstration.
feature
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But the songs featuring the dancers provided the spectacle.
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The 8-minute work will feature about 16 dancers .
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Herbert Ross, who had replaced him, wanted Alvin and de Lavallade to join the show as featured dancers .
move
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As they passed through the dancers , Connon noticed-Pascoe moving slowly around with an attractive young girl.
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The dancers move very little in what follows, and when they separate as a group they return and pull together.
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It also led to closer contacts between the dancers as they moved from picture to picture within the design.
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The ideal of aesthetic athleticism, as embodied in her dancers , is the moving force that steers her work.
perform
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These are seen to belong to one particular country and are at their best when performed by dancers from that country.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a world famous dancer
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Her childhood dream was to be a ballet dancer .
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I'm not a very good dancer .
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The ballet dancer , Rudolph Nureyev, died at the age of fifty four.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Blues Suite has changed over the years in structure, content and the ways succeeding generations of dancers perform it.
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Each village has dancers and musicians to enact musical dramas which have been passed down through the generations.
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I was determined to be a professional dancer .
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Narrative dance applies to those phrases of conversation between individuals or between dancers and public, where the dancer uses explicit gestures.
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Suddenly it stops and, it seems within seconds, drummers, dancers and audience disperse.
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The desk lamp with an emerald-green shade and small prints of Degas' dancers were the only distinctive features of the room.
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The tension got to the dancers, too, and many expected the ballet to be a fiasco.