What is the name for the gesture or act which directs applause to another... as often done by acrobats in which the nonparticipating members of the team lift their arms toward the one who has just finished a stunt and smile towards the audience.
Give it up for...?
Granted tho, not a noun
Well it is a form of acknowledging, I guess.
It is a very sepecific action but I don't think it has a specific name.
The word is a verb; I saw it years ago in a circus news item; told myself to never forget it; and promptly did.
RNB
How about wafture? Conation? Chironomy?
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prompting applause (or prompting the applause)
But the prompting can't stand alone, the applause has to be there as part of the phrase.
Otherwise, I can't think, right now, of a *single word which
names this common gesture in show business.
I know the gesture you mean SantaF. Folks often to the same when they point to something they've done and then say "TA-dah!"
Captation, but only by a very liberal interpretation of a carefully selected def