stick dance

stick dance
noun
: any of various dances especially of western Europe and India in which sticks are beaten against each other by two partners or by the two hands of a dancer

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stick dance,
a folk or ritual dance marked by the symbolic use or beating of sticks, found throughout the world in many forms.

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