Party animal, teacher is into the dancing (8)
I believe the answer is:
hedonist
'party animal' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'teacher is into the dancing' is the wordplay.
'teacher' becomes 'don' (don can mean an academic - especially at Oxbridge).
'into' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'dancing' indicates an anagram.
'don'+'is'='donis'
'the' with letters rearranged gives 'het'.
'donis' going into 'het' is 'HEDONIST'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for hedonist that I've seen before include "pagan" , "sybarite" , "Extreme pleasure-seeker" , "One who believes in pleasure" , "Epicurean" .)