Interestingly (to me at least) classical musicians and critics tend to use "preserving the dance character" (of, say, Bach's partitas for solo violin) to mean "not playing too slowly". My experience of playing for dancing (morris, scottish, rocknroll) tells me it should mean "not playing too fast". c
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