After the 15-minute ceremony in a small public office, the Mayor led us in spirited Greek dancing.

The event is described as "a family party, with high spirited dancing, song and revelry, all of it participatory, and geared to enthusiastic country dancers of all ages and levels of experience."

Yet tonight at the Garden State Arts Center here, Baryshnikov & Company finished off a grueling seven-week tour with pizazz and high spirited dancing.

A small, lithe dancer, she circled, ran and manipulated one onstage singer and large swaths of white and colored cloth in choreography that looked more like ritual and spirited dancing to music than formally plotted dance.

Based on Twain's life, his work and his travels abroad, the production is family-oriented and includes some spirited dancing, including a can-can number and a segment by soloists of the Moiseyev Ballet from Russia.

Mane Kadang and the Kochenga Dance Ensemble will present a free evening of spirited call-and-response dancing to West African music, with audience participation encouraged.

Programs by Ms. Santana's company can usually be counted on for spirited dancing and imaginative choreographic concepts.

And she felt ready to celebrate a lifetime of spirited dancing.

The couple's spirited dancing brings down the house.