Dance

A dance was a type of body movement done to music. An individual who did this professionally was called a dancer.

Earth celebrated International Dance Day on 29 April. Popular dances in the twelve galaxies included the waltz, the bolero, the six-legged two-step, the eight-dimensional tango and the drunk giraffe. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary)

Jamie McCrimmon performed the Highland Fling for a group of dancers on a human colony. Later, he, the Second Doctor, Ben Jackson and Polly Wright performed the dance as a way to escape the grateful colonists. (TV: The Macra Terror)

While visiting 1925 Oxfordshire, Tegan Jovanka danced the Charleston at Cranleigh Hall. (TV: Black Orchid)

Becky taught the Sixth Doctor the waltz and the foxtrot. (PROSE: Teach Yourself Ballroom Dancing)

The Sixth Doctor mentioned having once danced a cotillion with Jane Austen. (AUDIO: The Behemoth)

Neo-Latin dance lessons were available aboard the Thrasymachus. (PROSE: Honeymoon Horrors)

The Eleventh Doctor invented the drunk giraffe. He performed it first at the wedding of Amy Pond and Rory Williams. (TV: The Big Bang) The Doctor proceeded to dance with all the guests at the wedding, though the men were a bit shy to do so. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler) The Doctor later taught the drunk giraffe to the children of the town of Christmas during the centuries he spent protecting the settlement on Trenzalore. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)

In June 1816, Mary Shelley and her friends taught the Thirteenth Doctor and her companions quadrille when they visited Villa Diodati. (TV: The Haunting of Villa Diodati)

"Dancing" was a euphemism for sex used by the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler. The Doctor said he had "danced" before and raised the question of who Jack would like to "dance" with: himself or Rose. (TV: The Doctor Dances)