An outlandish dance, to add point to the story (8)
I believe the answer is:
anecdote
'the story' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'an outlandish dance to add point' is the wordplay.
'an outlandish' is an anagram indicator.
'add' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'point' becomes 'e' (E is an example).
'dance'+'to'='danceto'
'danceto' anagrammed gives 'anecdot'.
'anecdot'+'e'='ANECDOTE'
'to' is the link.
(Other definitions for anecdote that I've seen before include "A short tale, usually true" , "Reminiscence, story" , "Neat code (anag.)" , "A short interesting story, usually true" , "Date once (anag.)" .)