ballroom dance
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Origin of ballroom dance
First recorded in 1890–95
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So sometimes on a Saturday early morning, I would go to my ballroom dance lesson.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026
Widdrington told BBC Radio Stoke he lived next door to some ballroom dance teachers and he joined their class, but it took a while for him to fall in love with it.
From BBC ● May 28, 2025
He had become a dance instructor — he had started learning ballroom dance at age 8 — but didn’t like teaching much.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024
Gentili acted in the FX television series “Pose,” about the underground ballroom dance scene in the 1980s and 1990s.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2024
Sarah thinks they go out to romantic dinners and take ballroom dance lessons or see black-and-white foreign movies with subtitles and deep meanings.
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
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