dance
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Afterward, Belgium celebrated in its dressing room by performing a version of Trump’s signature dance and singing “YMCA” before packing for the quarterfinals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
Drop too many heavy-hitters at once, and the viewer will be dizzy in seconds, watching cartoon ruby slippers dance in a circle around their head.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
Her "galumphing" moves, as she described her dance style, helped her survive to the show's quarter-finals thanks to the vote from the public, who cheered on her ability to laugh at herself.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
Anton Du Beke, Widdecombe's dance partner on Strictly, said her death was the "saddest of news".
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Like me, she’s watching the fluid dance between horse and rider.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
“These are what we used as the backdrop for the concert scenes. Them spiritual to me,” Marley says in patois as the smell of palo santo dances around the rehearsal space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
The current 17-member company, since 2005 under the artistic direction of former Graham dancer Janet Eilber, accompanied by the Mannes Orchestra, presented five Graham dances in April that spanned the 1930s and ’40s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
But this one, her sixth, dances us through her evolution and many revolutions, serving up everything from jazz to funk to Chicago house on the dance track “Right Here Right Now.”
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
Increasingly dexterous robots have proven themselves capable of performing choreographed dances, participating in races, and even able to land backflips.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
Still, Windy giggles and kind of dances as she walks.
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
She danced and sinned and regretted and atoned, and then contradicted herself by doing it all over again.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
In the ballroom scene of “Swan Lake,” Mr. McKenzie’s production features a flashy and somewhat extraneous role for an alter-ego of the sinister sorcerer Von Rothbart, which Mr. Stearns has danced with poetic panache.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
The bar in East Flagler Street pulsed with life and danced to the beat of the World Cup.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Together, the Block Party and Art Parade attracted an estimated 60,000 attendees, who swarmed the galleries, danced to explosive DJ sets, and lined the streets to watch the eclectic procession of artists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026
I had danced around the field with Da, singing, “We’ll call him Patch.”
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
"It was great to see everybody getting up dancing these songs that we created ourselves."
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Friends recalled her body-shaking laugh and one remembered her dancing on a tabletop during a birthday party.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Originating from Greece and other countries, most were dancing bears in captivity, or animals that lived in zoos.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
The pair is eyeing late summer for a doors-open debut, with an open-air block party that will close Imperial Street for dancing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
She loved dancing as much as she loved tennis and biking.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
