Sentence examples for dance command from inspiring English sources

Now, riding the dance world's accelerated career track, he's recording with Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber, and the crowd at Red Rocks obediently followed his every fist-pumping dance command.

It consists mostly of players at a keyboard typing into a dialogue bubble displayed above the heads of their pixelated characters, perhaps while using the "slow dance" command or lying on a simulated bed.

Nelly barks out dance commands ("Drop down and get your eagle on, girl"), the Neptunes supply some ascending chromatic scales, then the beat takes over again.

As a 50-ish crowd forms lines to swing and switch partners over bouncy fiddle and accordion beats, a caller issues classic square dance commands.

"It's time to dance," commands Belgian singer/songwriter/producer Stromae in the opening lines of "Ta fête," the first cut on his 2013 album, Racine Carée, and a sleeper hit this year.

"Come on, Germans -- go into your dance!" His command is the cue for a stage full of goose-stepping chorines in storm trooper caps and lederhosen hot pants to take their places in a rotating swastika formation, filmed from an overhead angle like the climax of a Busby Berkeley musical number.

Hip-hop (plus related genres like R&B and dancehall) and electronic dance music commanded the aesthetic high ground then.

Robert Battle, the artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, commanded the audience to rise, but the ovation would have happened anyway.

Its latest album, "Señor Smoke" (Warner), never achieves dance-punk command, but the histrionic singer Dick Valentine and his boys know how to be manic.

They are programmable and can move and dance at your command.

The sheer force of bass-heavy opener Zero and Karen O's command that you "Dance, dance, dance, till you're dead!" on Heads Will Roll was enough to knock that notion sideways.