Movement of dancer's damaged leg to house is pitiful (8)
I believe the answer is:
glissade
'movement of dancer's' is the definition.
'glissade' can be an answer for 'movement' (glissade is a kind of movement). I'm not sure about the 'of dancer's' bit.
'damaged leg to house is pitiful' is the wordplay.
'damaged' is an anagram indicator.
'to house' indicates putting letters inside.
'pitiful' becomes 'sad' (synonyms).
'leg' is an anagram of 'gle'.
'is'+'sad'='issad'
'gle' enclosing 'issad' is 'GLISSADE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for glissade that I've seen before include "Ballet step" , "Ballet slide" , "movement in ballet" .)