An Aboriginal dance in which the movements of an emu are imitated.
his mother taught him the sacred emu dance
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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.