Castanets appear in Egypt in the 24th dynasty (c. 730 709 bce) as typical dancers' instruments.
Always looking for a break, walking around the city hooked up to the same Walkman — typical dancers, a little bit thinner and closer together with every passing day.
"Japanese dancers copy, not create," she said, "and I'm more like typical Japanese dancer".
In life, the typical ballet dancer wants to be the swan, the iconic heroine of "Swan Lake".
The passionate thrust in her dancing is a Moscow trademark, and yet she is not a typical Bolshoi dancer.
Bowie stated that he was looking for dancers who did not look like typical MTV dancers and who knew both American street-dancing and European performance art.
He was handling a pair of gold leather shoes made up of the letters CRAZY sewn together, featuring 5-inch, or 12.7-centimeter, heels and 4-inch, or 10-centimeter, arches, which are "typical for dancers," he said.
In a typical day, dancers take a technique class in the morning, followed by rehearsal for future performances and then classes in partnering, jazz, character and modern dance or yoga in the afternoon.
McFee says the difference is that musicians "make or cause the sounds that instantiate the musical work" whereas "in typical cases dancers are the dance – their movements instantiate the artwork, rather than merely causing it" (2012, 2).
In a typical performance, the dancer will rapidly twirl and enter a trance state.
