See also: dance-goer

English edit

Etymology edit

dance +‎ goer

Noun edit

dancegoer (plural dancegoers)

  1. A person who attends either a dance or a dance performance.
    • 1997, Jack Anderson, Choreography Observed, page 246:
      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.
    • 2009 January 23, Alastair Macaulay, “Finally Arriving in Manhattan, With Balanchine as Its Calling Card”, in New York Times[1]:
      As a dancegoer, I feel I have much to learn from watching this company; I hope others feel the same.

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