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Dancing Stars

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A few of the words

FOXTROT
The foxtrot takes its name from the vaudeville performer Harry Fox, who introduced a trotting two-step to New York audiences around 1914.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
WALTZ
Considered scandalously intimate when it arrived in European ballrooms in the late 18th century, the waltz became the defining couples' dance of the 19th century.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
TAP
Tap dance blends African rhythmic footwork with Irish and English clog traditions — a uniquely American art form that found its grandest stage in Hollywood musicals.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SPOTLIGHT
Stage spotlights were originally fed by burning lime — hence the phrase 'in the limelight' — before electric arc lights took over in the late 1800s.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Dancing Stars: a free large-print word search

Dancing Stars — a free, large-print word search celebrating the shimmer of movie ballrooms, gliding partners, and the magic of a perfectly timed routine.

About Music & Film

Few things on the silver screen are as purely joyful as a great dance number — the click of tap shoes on a polished stage floor, a couple finding their foxtrot in a flood of warm light, every step drilled through long hours of practice until it looks effortless. Hollywood's golden-age choreographers built entire worlds around the body in motion, making grace and rhythm feel like a kind of conversation. From the spinning waltz of a grand ballroom to a loose-limbed swing number in a rain-soaked street, those moments have a way of staying with us long after the curtain falls.

How to play

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    Find a word from the list.Press the first letter and drag to the last — across, down or diagonally, forwards or back. Or tap the first letter, then the last.
  2. 2
    It stays marked.Found words get a soft teal line through them, on the grid and in the list.
  3. 3
    Make it comfortable.Use the A / A+ / A++ size control any time, or pinch the grid for a closer look.

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