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dance music; ballet music

kumi odori; traditional Ryūkyūan dance style

deer dance; costumed folk dance from NE Japan

Idiomatic expression

to be thrilled; to be excited

to dance

to begin to dance; to break into a dance

to dance in ecstasy

to spring up; to leap to one's feet; to jump up and down

traditional Japanese dance

Awa Odori Festival (Tokushima)

to dance to the music

Food, cooking

eating live seafood (e.g. squid, ice gobies) while it is still moving

to dance all night; to dance until dawn

Buddhist incantation using chanting, drumbeating, and dancing

to dance away

Buddhist incantation using chanting, drumbeating, and dancing

From the first line of a song sung during the Awa Odori festival

you're a fool if you dance, and a fool if you just look on; we're all fools, so let's dance

float at a festival upon which one can dance

folk dance; ethnic dance

dance performance held in April by geisha and maiko in Kyoto's Gion district

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Odoru Daisōsasen (1997 TV drama)

to manipulate (someone); to make (someone) dance to one's tune; to lead astray

to make (someone) dance; to let dance

kabuki dance

to be manipulated; to be made to dance