trance dancing, n.
Brit. /ˈtrɑːns ˌdɑːnsɪŋ/, /ˈtrans ˌdansɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈtræns ˌdænsɪŋ/
[‹ trance n.1 + dancing n., after trance dance n. Compare earlier trance dancer n.]
The action of performing a trance dance (in any sense); dancing in a trance. Cf. trance dance n.
| 1956 F. L. Bowers Theatre in East viii. 233 Described in words, trance dancing sounds like an anthropological report, but when you are actually present and see all its reality, you soon begin to lose your detachment. 1979 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 38 260 Trance-dancing is common during the self-born deities' annual festivals. 1981 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 8 Feb. iv. 9/1 Each year, they hold a feast around the crater with shadow puppetry, trance dancing and drum beating. And, for extra measure, Java princes still offer silk tapestries to Merapi's sulphurous crater. 1994 Dream Network 3 17/1 Trance dancing, where one is taken by spirit into a heavy dream state. 2000 Nation 1 May 26/1 Read his..Viceroy of Ouidah..a sadomasochistic fantasy of horned vipers, bloody goats, severed heads..a voodoo brew of imperialist porn and candomble trance-dancing. |