Of the several people interviewed, only onecouple had really "connected." For the rest, therewould be more weekends to come of standing in avirtual amphitheatre, watching the modern satyrchorus boogie around an empty center.
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"No one asked me to dance," a29-year-old blonde office manager told us when weasked about her night.
"I come here about every other weekend. I thinktomorrow I'll go the party at the Holiday Inn.It'll be better there. Tonight was an older crowdand there weren't that many people."
She was sitting across the small bar table,smiling thinly and occasionally adjusting herglasses. The last dance came on and she got up toleave, then wove her way through the dancers andout of the room. She singlehandedly broke Syatt'smyth of the speedy connection.
A tall man, 62, observing the dancing at adistance, said he started coming regularly tosingles parties after being separated from hiswife.
"I've been going twice a week. I don't know ifI'm gonna go any longer. I haven't connected withwomen that I would ask out. I know a man who hasfound people periodically, but I'm veryparticular--I'll only ask two people to dance inone night," he said.
Like others interviewed, this man emphasizedthat he felt comfortable sitting out a dance ortwo because most people did not find a suitablematch.
"When I was single, God knows how many yearsago, I would never go to these things. But thesepeople seem very ma-