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ballroom dance
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ballroom dance

European and American social dancing performed by couples. It includes standard dances such as the fox-trot, waltz, polka, tango, Charleston, jitterbug, and merengue. Ballroom dance was popularized by Vernon and Irene Castle and Fred Astaire and, later, by Arthur Murray (1895–1991), who established ballroom dance studios throughout the U.S. Ballroom dance contests, especially popular in Europe, feature both amateur and professional dancers.


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Hu relaxes by playing Ping-Pong, and is known as a skilled ballroom dancer.
I used to tell people I was a ballroom dancer and they always thought I said bar room dancer, so they would ask me what bar I worked at," Murphy said, laughing.
All of this goes on in the background of the novel's much more complicated story line, which includes a pot-farming mom, a Chinese smuggler of refugees who sidelines as a professional ballroom dancer, lesbian separatist survivalists, and an obnoxious writer named Douglas Coupland.
 
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