danciness
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]danciness (uncountable)
- (music) The quality of being dancy, suitable to or filled with dance.
- 1998, Robert G. O'Meally, The Jazz Cadence of American Culture, page 536:
- These and other writers also consciously strive for jazz's full-bodied swingingness, its danciness, its range of allusion, its trickbag of quicksilver improvisational impulses.
- 2007 September 25, Alastair Macaulay, “An Idiomatic Balanchine, Walking the Walk in Seattle”, in New York Times[1]:
- The sheer danciness of most Balanchine ballets gives audiences a basically exhilarating time.