fan dance

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1. 1

   A dance performance incorporating the artful use of fans.

   • 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.
2. 2

   A stage performance or striptease in which a female entertainer disrobes while dancing…

   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.

   • 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.
3. 3

   The incremental disclosure of tantalizing bits of information.

   • 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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      To perform such a dance.

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