Sentence examples for challenge dance from inspiring English sources

Finally, voguing is a challenge dance which is always improvised, never choreographed.

Suddenly there are three of him (holograms), and they do a challenge dance.

The most exciting dance is a stomping, grunting Maori challenge dance, with much thrusting out of the tongue.

Kelly adroitly bridged the gap between Berkeley's cinematic pyrotechnics and Astaire's straightforward theatrical approach with Cover Girl's "Alter Ego" number, in which, with the aid of meticulously timed special-effects work, he performed a two-man "challenge dance" with himself.

His best performances, Seibert says, were given on the sidewalk, "cutting" (doing a challenge dance) with his colleague Groundhog, in front of Minton's Playhouse, the famous club in Harlem.

Like somatic improvisation, challenge dance improvisation can be offered for audience appreciation in a concert context but need not be – it has taken place in social and street settings, for entertainment as well as for "artistic" purposes.

In one sequence four men stood like a wall, playing their challenge dances, solo by solo, against a rival quartet.

Challenge dances usually employed three judges.

Beginning in the early 1840s, Juba began a series of dance competitions known as challenge dances.

The participation of Dixon, a blackface singer and dancer, in these contests presaged the challenge dances of performers such as Master Juba and John Diamond in the next few years.

This was around the time of the challenge dances, and Dickens was possibly drawn by rumors of Barnum's disguising of a black youth as a white minstrel performer.