Laverne began to do a kind of comic dance up and down the room.
Each week the bumbling old man would have adventures, partly slapstick, partly comic dance, with two young friends.
He is first mentioned in record in 1702 as a dancer at Drury Lane Theatre, performing serious and comic dances.
"Little comic dances kept creeping in when my back was turned," he said.
It's part of a series of comic dances that evolved out of drunken stupors.
My comic dances are lighter.
But as the latest in a long line of comic dance works about backstage life at the ballet, it cannot decide between parody and pastiche.
He is famous for his comic dance and silly act.
Yet behind all the comic dance holds and missed connections are missed connections on a human level.
The other tape, extracted from the film "Risky Business," made Tom Cruise's comic dance in his underwear an act of extreme desperation.