Talk:Participation dance

Explain the folk polka mixer

 * A funny version of the above (observed during a folk Polka mixer in Lithuania): After some dancing the caller calls: "Guys inside (the circle), gals outside. Gals continue dancing, guys groom themselves." Then the caller calls "Guys, grab yourselves a pair". Then he calls: "Now gals inside, guys outside." (A pause of suspense...) "Gals continue dancing, guys groom themselves." (Got it? :-)...

No, I don't get it. Is the point that the participants expect that the caller is going to tell the men to dance with each other (but he doesn't actually do so)? If so, I don't understand how this would be understood. --Metropolitan90 19:53, 16 April 2006 (UTC) I removed the "get it". It was written long ago when I was not that bureaucratic. The point of joke is that the symmetry is broken: in both cases girls dance while boyz do nothing despite changing places). This kind of humour is common in a number of other folk dance forms. It is seen, e.g., in an episode from "Dance with Me": in one scene of Ruby and Rafael dancing he pretends as if he sits and smokes while she is dancing. `'mikka (t) 15:38, 10 August 2006 (UTC)