History Main / DanceOfRomance

** A variation. In the opening of "Down the Rabbit Hole," a janitor does a tango with a mannequin in honor of his and his late wife's wedding anniversary.
** At the end of the Valentine's Day episode, "Blood Actually," Mac meets Christine in a club where Music/JoshGroban is performing, gives her a hand-written card, and she asks how he always knows what to say. He replies, "That's easy, Christine, because I love you." As the first notes of "Happy in My Heartache" begin, he takes her by the hand, leads her to the dance floor, and as they sway slowly to the song, she rests her head on his shoulder. [[spoiler:They get engaged in the next episode.]]

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Bolt and Mittens dance together in "The Wedding Reception." However, it does not bear romantic fruit until a later story, "The Ship," where it is lampshaded. In the latter story, Mittens's memory of dancing with Bolt heightens her feelings of attraction to the dog considerably.

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Bolt and Mittens dance together in "The Wedding Reception." However, it does not bear romantic fruit until a later story, "The Ship," where it is lampshaded.

* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Monica and Chandler have an off-screen one when Chandler realized Monica was the woman he "wanted to dance all his dances with."

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Bolt and Mittens dance together in “The Wedding Reception.” However, it does not bear romantic fruit until a later story, “The Ship,” where it is lampshaded.

* ''Film/MyAnimal'': Heather dances pretty suggestively with Jonny fondling her waist and unzipping then zipping up her jacket. Afterward they finally kiss as it becomes clear that Jonny shares her feelings.

* ''Series/{{Friends}}'' Monica and Chandler have an off-screen one when Chandler realized Monica was the woman he "wanted to dance all his dances with."

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': While Aang's feelings for Katara had been somewhere on the spectrum between PrecociousCrush and UnrequitedLove for quite a while, their dance scene in "The Headband" was the first time it looked like his attraction might be reciprocated. (A certain [[CanonDiscontinuity trip through a cave]] notwithstanding.)

* Luz and Amity's [[DanceBattler dance to defeat Grom]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' episode "Enchanting Grom Fright" has extreme romantic overtones, especially since [[spoiler:it's confirmed to the audience less than a minute after the dance is over that Amity is in love with Luz.]]
* A brief and one-sided example in ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' episode "Blood Moon Ball". During a magical moon-influenced dance, Star is clearly smitten with her dance partner until he reveals himself to be Marco, who just thought he was rescuing her from the party.

** In season 1, Daphne and Simon often dance together. Despite they initially intended to do it with their own agenda (Simon: to keep the the ladies from pursuing him, Daphne: to be more desirable for suitors), but they are obviously attracted to one another.

* ''Series/GothamKnights2023'': Stephanie and Harper dancing sexily together at the club (just for cover at the time, it appears), came just before the former kissed the latter, after she realized her attraction to girls.

* ''VideoGame/SidMeiersPirates'': The RomanceSidequest to woo a Governor's daughter involves several formal balls, where the player character needs to perform adequately to advance the quest line.

* ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'': After catching Fouguet, the academy holds a ball where Louise asks Saito for a dance. In the novels, at least, Saito declares that that was the time when he fell in love with Louise.

* ''Film/CassanovaWasAWoman'': Cassanova realizes she's attracted to Lola (and later bisexual because of this) while dancing with her in [[WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame in a lesbian club]]. After this they fall for each other and date.

Compare MatingDance, ConvenientSlowDance, FlightOfRomance.

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* Crumb and the old guy do this in ''Film/TheCityOfLostChildren''.
* In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', Bruce Wayne gets to do one with [[DatingCatwoman Selina Kyle]] about 30 minutes into the movie.