Frevo vs. Dance

Frevo is a dance and musical style originating from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, traditionally associated with Brazilian Carnival. The word frevo is said to come from frever, a variant of the Portuguese word ferver (to boil).

Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value.

Any of a wide range of music and dance styles originating from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, and traditionally associated with Brazilian carnival.

To move rhythmically usually to music, using prescribed or improvised steps and gestures.

(Zoology) To perform a specialized set of movements to communicate chiefly with other members of the same species.

To move or leap about excitedly.

To bob up and down or move about rapidly

To appear to flash or twinkle

(Informal) To speak or behave in an evasive or vacillating manner

To engage in or perform (a dance).

To lead (someone) in a dance.

To cause to move up and down quickly or lightly

A series of motions and steps, such as the waltz or tango, usually performed to music.

The act or an instance of dancing

The music composed or played for a certain kind of dance or for a particular dance.

The art of dancing

A party or gathering of people for dancing.

(Zoology) An act of communication by dancing

A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.

A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.

(uncountable) The art, profession, and study of dancing.

(uncountable) A genre of modern music characterised by sampled beats, repetitive rhythms and few lyrics.

A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm.

(figurative) A battle of wits, especially one commonly fought between two rivals.

Any strenuous or difficult movement, action, or task.

(heraldry) A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center of a coat of arms from dexter to sinister.

(apiology) A repetitive movement used in communication between worker honey bees.

The death throes of a hanged person.

(intransitive) To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.

(intransitive) To leap or move lightly and rapidly.

(transitive) To perform the steps to.

(transitive) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.

To make love or have sex.

To make a repetitive movement in order to communicate to other worker honey bees.

To kick and convulse from the effects of being hanged.

To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements, (commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhythmically.

To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about.

To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about, or up and down; to dandle.

The leaping, tripping, or measured stepping of one who dances; an amusement, in which the movements of the persons are regulated by art, in figures and in accord with music.

A tune by which dancing is regulated, as the minuet, the waltz, the cotillon, etc.

an artistic form of nonverbal communication

a party of people assembled for dancing

taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music

a party for social dancing

move in a graceful and rhythmical way;

move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance;

skip, leap, or move up and down or sideways;