An Aboriginal dance in which the movements of an emu are imitated.
his mother taught him the sacred emu dance
Example sentencesExamples
- He believed that in dancing the emu dance he helped to maintain the intangible spirit of the emu in the spirit world.
- They concluded by getting three ladies to volunteer to come up on stage to perform the Emu Dance, and then four men came up to perform the Kangaroo Dance.
- There are some uplifting sequences, such as when the men teach him the emu dance, and then all teach each other dances from their own cultural groups.
- He delighted the crowd with an impromptu emu dance.
- Some seventy years later the emu dance also caught her eye.