1.   A bright yellow strip of tape separated the country-western ballroom dancers from the line dance crowd.

2.   Longbine said line dancers have concluded that repeated dance floor collisions were acts of aggression by the ballroom dancers.

3.   At the outset of the Russian Revolution, he emigrated from his homeland to England, where he became a ballroom dancer and edited Dancing World Magazine.

4.   Ballroom dancers are getting younger.

5.   Ballroom dancers compete in either international style, which has standardized moves throughout the world, or American style, a flashier style that originated in the United States.

6.   Bobby Valentine was a championship ballroom dancer as a teen-ager, but his sense of timing could not have been worse this week.

7.   A champion ballroom dancer.

8.   A competitive ballroom dancer for nearly a decade, Ms. Binstock was nationally ranked.

9.   But when he indented one edge of the building to frame a vista of Prague Castle, the silhouette recalled the flaring gown of a ballroom dancer.