Meanings
plural dancegoers
- A person who attends either a dance or a dance performance.
As a dancegoer, I feel I have much to learn from watching this company; I hope others feel the same.
2009 January 23, Alastair Macaulay, “Finally Arriving in Manhattan, With Balanchine as Its Calling Card”, in New York Times1 more example
If the score is in a traditional mode, some dancegoers will complain that it sentimentalizes the dancing; if experimental, other dancegoers will call it distracting noise.
1997, Jack Anderson, Choreography Observed, page 246
Origin
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