The fiddler tunes the strings. The guitar player strums a couple of chords. Around the room, the dancers ask for a partner for the first contradance of the evening.
Smiles are plentiful.
Cares are left at the door. For the past two hundred years people across America have gathered in houses, churches, and dance halls for the wonderful evenings of social contradancing. And people shall gather again soon. Social dancing it is, and always has been. Easily accessible by all people, it requires no special training or natural talent.