Find dance extremely short (8)
I believe the answer is:
discover
'find' is the definition.
('discover' can be a synonym of 'find')
'dance extremely short' is the wordplay.
'dance' becomes 'disco' (I've seen this before).
'extremely' becomes 'very' (I've seen this before).
'short' means to remove the last letter.
'very' with its final letter removed is 'ver'.
'disco'+'ver'='DISCOVER'
(Other definitions for discover that I've seen before include "Realise" , "Find through searching" , "Come upon" , "Be the first to have sight or knowledge of" , "Make a new finding" .)