Scandinavian taking in opening of contemporary ballet? (5)
I believe the answer is:
dance
'ballet?' is the definition.
(ballet is a kind of dance)
'scandinavian taking in opening of contemporary' is the wordplay.
'scandinavian' becomes 'dane' (person from Denmark).
'taking in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'opening of' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'contemporary' is 'c'.
'dane' placed around 'c' is 'DANCE'.
(Other definitions for dance that I've seen before include "Fling" , "Trip the light fantastic" , "Move rhythmically" , "Quickstep, e.g." , "social event" .)