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trance dance, n.
Brit. |ˈtrɑːns dɑːns|, |ˈtrans dans|, U.S. |ˈtræns ˌdæns|
[‹ trance n.1 + dance n.]
1.
a. Originally: any of various ritual dances in which participants enter a state of trance; esp. one of the Balinese sang hyang religious dances, during which gods are thought to occupy the bodies of the dancers (usually young girls). Also: a secular or theatrical performance of such a ritual dance.
1935G. Gorer Africa Dances 179 His women started dancing. Their dance was the usual trance dance, accompanied by the curious pantomime of awakening and the cataleptic falls. We had seen it in many other districts. 1937M. Covarrubias Island of Bali viii. 218 Sanghyang... An exorcising trance dance of the legong style performed by little girl mediums. 1956F. L. Bowers Theatre in East 213 In the interior of North Sumatra, Tumbuklado Penchak, also a trance dance, is performed with one boy combatting two girls, all armed with short curved daggers. 1975Current Anthropol. 16 159/1 The deliberate violations of sacred norms and institutionalized outbursts of aggression against the tribal deities displayed among Bushmen by medicine-men during their periodic trance dances. 1988National Geographic May 605/1 (caption) Praying to a snake deity for an early marriage, a woman near Alleppey performs a trance dance..as a pullavan, or priest, sings and plays a fiddle. 1998E. Bourguignon in Internat. Encycl. Dance VI. 188/1 Trance dance also functions as entertainment in both traditional and modern contexts.
b. In extended use: a dance which evokes or emulates a state of trance, or which is performed to trance-like music. Also: a dance in which the dancer aims to enter a trance, often in order to increase spiritual awareness or as a religious ritual; a dance performed while in a trance or a trance-like state.
In later use, perh. influenced by sense 2.
1977N.Y. Times 23 Mar. c24/5 Here we had the American premiere of the American choreographer Lar Lubovitch's ‘Marimba: a trance dance’. 1983Washington Post (Nexis) 5 Dec. b11 Juliet Forrest's jazzy trance-dance ‘Caesura’..[was] energetically danced. 1991Rolling Stone 28 Nov. 96/1 The hypno-throb becomes an exorcising trance dance. 1995Face Sept. 154/1, I suggest you come drug-free to your first trance dance experience..as—once awakened by Spirit—images, feelings, smells, tastes, sounds and thoughts of other times will flow freely. 1999Healing Arts Festival Programme 8/3 Ecstatic trance-dance. Experience a unique blend of breathwork, movement and guided meditations designed to get you ‘out of your head’ and into an expanded state of consciousness.
2. A type of electronic dance music derived from Acid House and techno, characterized by rhythms and sounds intended to be hypnotic or trance-inducing. Cf. trance n.1, Goa trance n. at Goa n.1 Additions
Initially closely associated with Acid House (see quot. 1988), and sometimes used almost synonymously, but later referring to a distinct genre.
1988Times (Nexis) 18 Aug. Distinct styles began to emerge. One was the eccentric and predominantly instrumental sound that has been called a 1980s equivalent of free jazz, music for contemplation, the dance-floor's answer to New Age music, trance dance and acid. 1992N. George Buppies, B-Boys, Baps & Bohos (1994) Chronology 15 Kraftwerk's trance dance, ‘Trans-Europe Express’, is a left-field black hit that influences many young DJs. 1998S. Reynolds Energy Flash iv. 110 New Beat began when DJs started to spin gay Hi-NRG records at 33 r.p.m. rather than the correct 45 r.p.m., creating an eerie, viscous, trance-dance groove. |