They were dancing again, the oldest dance, and somehow she'd taken the lead.

Its contents can do much to give old dances new life.

When I see the old dances, the power and strength with which we moved reminds me of the women's movement today.

And yet all these dances, new and old, do have some something in common.

The result of this is that the old dances are being forgotten.

My mother couldn't be persuaded to do her old slow dances, however.

But this year, the 58th for America's oldest dance festival, is different.

Rather, they seek to give old dances new life onstage.

One of the robbers took it, played and ordered the old dance.

Others are more modern inventions made in the style of older dances.