单词 | trance dance |
释义 | trance dancen. 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. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > dance > [noun] canticoy1670 snake dance1772 ritual dance1805 cyclic chorus1846 sun dance1849 Ghost Dance1876 kagura1884 kachina dance1888 Ghost Dancing1890 tripudium1909 ring-shout1926 trance dance1935 Shango1941 1935 G. Gorer Afr. 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. 1937 M. Covarrubias Island of Bali viii. 218 Sanghyang... An exorcising trance dance of the legong style performed by little girl mediums. 1956 F. 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. 1975 Current 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. 1988 National 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. 1998 E. 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, perhaps influenced by sense 2. ΚΠ 1977 N.Y. Times 23 Mar. c24/5 Here we had the American premiere of the American choreographer Lar Lubovitch's ‘Marimba: a trance dance’. 1983 Washington Post (Nexis) 5 Dec. b11 Juliet Forrest's jazzy trance-dance ‘Caesura’..[was] energetically danced. 1991 Rolling Stone 28 Nov. 96/1 The hypno-throb becomes an exorcising trance dance. 1995 Face 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. 1999 Healing 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 Compounds.Initially closely associated with Acid House (see quot. 1988), and sometimes used almost synonymously, but later referring to a distinct genre. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > dance music > [noun] > others galliard1545 passamezzo1568 pavane1591 passy-measure1597 rant1656 passacaglia1659 passacaille1667 chaconne1685 rigadoon1690 passepied1696 rigaudon1708 bourrée1776 minuet de la cour1783 quadrille1802 treble1805 pigeon wing1807 polka1825 redowa1843 polka time1844 écossaise1863 verbunkos1880 drag1901 foxtrot1915 burru1929 rumba1931 palais glide1936 Lambeth Walk1937 jitterbug1939 high life1942 Zydeco1949 hand jive1958 hand jiving1958 hokey-cokey1966 twist1966 chicken scratch1972 smoocher1976 funana1981 New Beat1988 trance dance1988 1988 Times (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. 1992 N. 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. 1998 S. 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. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1935 |
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