The phrase "a long dance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a dance that lasts for an extended period of time or to convey a sense of duration in a metaphorical context.
Example: "The performance featured a long dance that captivated the audience for nearly an hour."
Alternatives: "an extended dance" or "a lengthy dance".
The most complex section has to do with a demonstration that both reveals and conceals the structure of a long dance sequence that runs through the piece.
A long dance with the Hong Kong producer Bill Kong, famous for commercial and artistic successes that include "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and Zhang Yimou's "Hero," led to Hui's teaming up with him for "Monster Hunt".
The concrete street was a long dance floor, and my wing moved along it in leafy anarchy: twirling, waving, doing the quick steps of accomplished samba dancers or just shaking our hips.
Second: Astaire singing "Night and Day," Cole Porter's greatest song, and then leading Ginger Rogers, who has been resisting him, into a long dance of seduction, with heart-stopping episodes of aggression, temporary acquiescence, fierce pleading, and, finally, submission, all of it dramatized with dance, as dance.
A long dance with the Hong Kong producer Bill Kong, famous for commercial and artistic successes that include "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and Zhang Yimou's "Hero_," led to Hui's teaming up with him for "Monster Hunt._" Though the script was finished in 2009, Kong harbored doubts about potential box office for a film whose digital effects would cost in the scores of millions.
He said there had been a "long dance" between politicians and chief executives over who should take the lead on cutting emissions.
The first time I heard Stand Up and Speak, I thought I'd finally gotten the upbeat, sing-a-long dance album I never received this past summer.
Bogdanov found the pentangle theme to be contained in most sword dances, and so incorporated a long sword dance while Gawain lay tossing uneasily before getting up to go to the Green Chapel.
"What we do, basically, is cook a multicourse meal in the fireplace, and while it's cooking, we do sing-a-longs or dance around the table," Mr. van Over said.
It's been an at times frustratingly long dance to get to this point, but we've finally arrived at Spector v Gibson, a fight in which both hold important cards.
Normally the neurotransmitters and receptors "are doing a long, slow dance," Dr. Wilson said.
