Love had a compass whose whirling dance traced out a sphere of love in the void; in the center thereof rose a fountain.

Above a much smaller and differently dressed figure floating in the air seems to be the goddess herself, appearing amid the whirling dance.

And the word specifically refers to the whirling dance of the Sufi dervish, which no definition of dance that I know really encompasses.

His "Untitled" (1952) is a whirling dance of ragged fragments, like shards of plant leaves, in a gray void.

This painting suggests a whirling dance of the grief-stricken.

The work's young choreographer had obviously been influenced by the whirling dances of Laura Dean.

Yet in the murk was a pleasing form too, a loveliness to the proper observer: a whirling dance of light.

The hand drums were played with great skill and showmanship, the three drummers executing a whirling dance in time to their intricate rhythms.

All the Families in a dance, a whirling dance to here, then they stop and dance backward... According to a grid?

Those qualities filter into the opening movement of the string quintet too, though the finale is a whirling dance.