March 6, 2006, 5:52 a.m. (Message 44504)
More sensible comments (below) from Sylvia! I've been dancing for decades, and I am trying to remember a dance, a simple monthly dance with recorded music or a much grander ball with musicians, whereïn consistently throughout the whole evening the entire floor was cleared (to where?) between dances. I'm not certain that I am even able to recall any such thing in its extreme. I can well imagine the scenario described by Sylvia (below), for which many seem to be wishing, creating much more of a not-so-elegant stampede at the announcement of the next dance than the calm and genteel thanking of one's partner for the dance just finished, then either locating a prebooked partner or asking someone within sight spontaneously for the next one, and reorganizing without great rush into new sets. Robb Quint Thousand Oaks, CA, USA In a message dated 03/03/2006 9:33:07 AM Pacific Standard Time, xxxxxxx@xxx.xxx writes: