Enthusiastic participants, from two to 60, from the absolute novice to the professional, moved together on the floor as part of Le Bal Moderne. The smallest couples came from the audience of the just finished Good Birds children's dance performance. A two-year-old girl attached herself to the leg of her mother.
"This is not a performance," the organisers stress at the start, though few have come to the event as spectators. "Who hasn't found a partner? If you haven't, find one!" the organisers implore, though the couples are strangely matched, considering there are only about 20 men at Le Bal Moderne and 40 women. Along with the boyfriend-girlfriend couples are brother-sister and father-daughter pairings, and one "couple" formed by a husband and wife with an infant on her back and a three-year-old boy in tow.
