Ballet (n.) is a sport that originated as a dance interpretation of the sport of fencing.
Ballet (n.) projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision.
The Ballet (n.) is a form of dance where girls dance on their toes — one wonders why don't they just get taller girls?
Ballet (n.) is just a bunch of people in tights doing an impression of walking over hot asphalt in bare feet.
Ballroom dancing (n.) is learned in a panic six weeks before a wedding's first dance.
Ballroom dancing (n.) is competitive walking backwards in heels.
Ballroom dancing (n.) is two people agreeing in public about who leads.
Ballroom dancing (n.) is a dreary, neuralgic cocktail of starch and Babycham set to music.
Belly dancing (n.) is like a magician's hands, doing all the work exactly where you are already staring.
Belly dancing (n.) is precise muscle work that reads to the audience as abandon.
Belly dancing (n.) is discipline that has agreed to look like surrender.
Belly dancing (n.) is the stomach doing what it has spent all day being told not to do.
Breakdancing (n.) is the art of falling and catching yourself in different ways.
Breakdancing (n.) is gymnastics that learned to trash-talk.
Breakdancing (n.) is performed to a ring of people who are all waiting for their turn.