Meaning of fan dance | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A dance performance incorporating the artful use of fans.
2. A stage performance or striptease in which a female entertainer disrobes while dancing with large hand-held fans that are alternately used to conceal and provide glimpses of her erogenous body regions.
3. The incremental disclosure of tantalizing bits of information.
   broadly, figuratively, idiomatic

Examples

“Gracefully he led the fan dance, and glided without a pause into the shadow dance and the umbrella dance.”

“[T]he center's Chinese Folk Dance Company plans to perform six pieces, including a fan dance and a sword dance.”

“Undaunted Ming-Toy did a sinuous, undulating fan dance before the Imperial Daughters of the British Empire, then, at the last moment, showed what she thinks of them by raising her fans and standing starkly revealed in red underdrawers.”

“In 1962, photographer Bert Stern shot a series of photos of Marilyn Monroe: . . . Monroe, sleepy-eyed and naked, sips from a Champagne glass, enacts a fan dance of sorts with various diaphanous scarves, romps with erotic playfulness on a bed of white linens.”

“In what may be the most farcical episode of an 18-month-long fan dance, baseball players and ownership will sit down Monday in Los Angeles to discuss "non-economic issues" regarding the expired collective bargaining agreement.”

“Microsoft did a fan dance of sorts today, giving the public a glimpse at the upcoming Vista operating system.”

“Bettman, meanwhile, performed his now-traditional fan dance, skating around the revelation of a third group interested in buying the Coyotes.”

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