[Tango-L] NYT: Dance, Dance, Revolution?

[Carol Shepherd]

*Where* you can dance can be legally restricted.  Usually places that 
have liquor licenses cannot have dancing unless they have a cabaret 
license and the jurisdiction controls how many of those and how close to 
each other.  In some places dancing cannot go on in an establishment at 
all of any type where the public is invited unless there is a cabaret 
license (studios and private clubs usually excepted).  Or there can be a 
zoning requirement restricting it to a part of town (ie, in the 1800's 
there was no dancing allowed in Ann Arbor east of Division street 
because it was too close to the Unversity and might encourage moral 
decrepitude).

There is a 1st Amendment constitutional right to freedom of expression 
and dancing is included.  However, the government can make regulations 
about the 'time, place, and manner' of the activity as long as they do 
not prohibit it.  Cabaret laws have easily passed this test for hundreds 
of years.

Igor Polk wrote:
> Carol,
> 
> Does it mean dancing is restricted in bars all around country?
> 
> Great article, thank you very much !
> 
> Igor Polk
> 
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