The son of a side-show barker, Merkel found work in a small local carnival as a contortionist and eccentric dancer.

Each of two symmetrical handles takes the form of an eccentric dancer, holding a hoop through which a dog leaps.

No slouch at intricacy and chugging along in high-tech tap, he is this generation's brilliant eccentric dancer.

As a tap dancer, he was closer to an eccentric dancer (a vaudeville genre) than a hoofer, working from the knees down.

Ms. Apple played beautifully, though I was surprised to see what a jerkily eccentric dancer she is.

But on a deeper level, her performers, with their odd shapes and propulsions, recall the vaudevillians known as eccentric dancers.

Tony Azito (July 18, 1948 - May 26, 1995) was an American eccentric dancer and character actor.

They're what we call eccentric dancers, and they really do it.

Late one dark and stormy night his quiet hermit existence is disturbed when two eccentric exotic dancers arrive on his doorstep.

He's a kind of eccentric dancer who understands what he can do and what he looks like on stage.