Sentence examples for dance purposes from inspiring English sources

She has the hundred-and-eighty-degree extension that ballerinas, worldwide, now cultivate, but she uses it for dance purposes — to carve the air, broaden the arc — rather than for the merely visual purpose, so strange and fundamentally vulgar, of raising the foot to the ear.

The new musical, dark or light, signified one purpose for all its elements: -- music, lyrics libretto, dance, design.

In dance, the purpose is to blend with and mirror each other; in sport, the purpose is to come out ahead.

A dance's purpose and its musical score are outside influences on its structure.

The dance's purpose is to entice Supraba to the village to gain her blessing when evil forces threaten.

They scurry around in an eternal headless-chicken dance whose purpose is to make sure that someone gets the blame.

"I view these surveillance technologies as something I can use for aesthetic and dance-able purposes," says Appleton, a self-taught software wizard who wrote the code for his overall Face- Time system with Cal Arts-based programmer Steven Schkolne.

They are examples of ceremonies that use strong rhythms and dance for this purpose in indigenous cultures throughout the world.