[@shylarah] Mhm, that's why I said [i]might[/i]. Because we still don't have quite the level of tech that I personally would associate with the First World War, that doesn't mean that's not where we are in terms of social culture.

Plus, the Red Seminary comes across to me as all kinds of high society. And the high society kept hold of the older ways of dancing long into the Victorian age. I'm mostly referring to how thing would happen socially, though, as I've no idea of what the dances themselves were like.

As for whether or not anyone else would have asked for Ziotea to dance with them... well, at such events in the times I am speaking of, women would be given a 'card' to wear around their wrists. Gentlemen would ask if they would like to dance, and fill out the card in a particular slot. Often, the name of the dance also could have other connotations, such as political manouevers or just simply chatting. Nothing says Rodion wouldn't just fill most of them out.

EDIT: When you've been talking to others on discord for a while and use asterisks instead of italics...