Dance of Death, an allegorical representation in a dramatic or pictorial form of Death, figuring, originally as a skeleton, and performing his part as a chief actor all through the drama of life, and often amid the gayest scenes of it; a succession of woodcuts by Holbein in representation of this dance is well known.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Dance, George * Dancing Mania