No. It was the mid 70s; class of '76. No date, no dance, and lots of slow dance music.
At the time I wasn't interested, anyway. My long-distance bicycling hobby took up my time, probably to the great relief of my grandparents.

I used to go, I really liked to dance, and as is still the case, I didn't mind too much if I looked cool or not. I had a friend, a guy I didn't want to date, but we had a great time dancing and would get all sweaty and undignified together.

We had a roller rink in town too, it was very similar to a high school dance. Most of the girls were there to see and be seen, of course, they had the secret knowledge of how to have a boyfriend that I always seemed to lack. Had something to do with lipgloss, we all had skintight jeans and big ol combs sticking out of the back pockets.

Fun to think about, thanks SV. Three words for you, girl: High School Reunion!

I went to a few.
My date for my senior year Valentine's Dance broke his leg earlier in the day and he insisted I go anyway. Apparently there was a rumor going around that I swung both ways. At that time in my life I was so straight, bordering on straight edge. I didn't drink or party at all, I was a model student and quite innocent and my parents barely allowed me out of the house anyway. Early in the evening this very large black girl I didn't know approached me and asked if she could 'dance against me'. In my naivete, I said yes, thinking she meant 'competitively' as I was in the theater department and was known to be a skilled dancer.

Later on she cornered me... now, I was a slight 98 lbs and I'm pretty short. This girl had to be pushing 300 and her breasts looked like B-53 missiles. I asked "What are you doing?" She said "I'm gonna dance against you. Don't worry nobody's looking, nobody cares." Shocked, I replied: "I'm looking and I care!" and ran off. I had never been hit on by a woman at that time and she was rather intimidating to say the least.

I found out that a fellow theater student had egged her on as a joke on me and after that, the group of lesbian girls would mad dog me every day at lunch. I really thought they were going to kick my ass.

The only other dance that sticks out is my senior prom. My friend and I nominated each other for prom court as a joke, after all we were the art school girls of doom. By some power that eludes me, I made it onto the prom court. None of the senior girls had a date (our graduating class had less than 100 kids and the boys our age were not so much) and I went with a few friends. It was so boring and pop-culture infested, I spent the entire time hanging out in the parking lot (still not drinking or parting yet) with my friend and missed the court procession. I didn't win anyway. I saw the prom queen at my 10 year reunion and she still thinks she's the prom queen.... sad, methinks.

I did go to school dances and even though I went to them in the 90s it was in South Dakota, so they were still playing music from the 80s.
When I went to the Homecoming dance as a Freshman I was the only girl on the dance floor
I was the only PERSON on the dance floor, and had been all night. Me in my mother's tiger-striped tie-dyed cocktail dress dancing like it was the end of the world.
Finally the DJ (who I imagine was sick of playing to an empty floor) announced "This song goes out to all the ladies on the dance floor," (me) and put on "Brick House." That song has held a special place in my heart ever since.
I continued to go to school dances even though I had less "school spirit" than damn near any other body in that school. I continued to dance. I was often the only person on the floor. Fortunately there wasn't a single person in that school who had an opinion that mattered to me so it didn't really bother me if I was making a spectacle of myself.

mmm, ask me how many boys thought it special when they crooned "sweet melissa" in my ear. I had a good time at dances. I rather disliked the formal proms and such, it was really not cool to dance with anyone but your date. how boring.

The other thing I did was go to different schools' dances all over. I had like six circles of friends who didn't know each other, and, um, a boy in each circle who thought they were the only one.

*hangs head in shame*

I mean sheesh, it was just a dance, right?

I used to go to most of the school dances, I loved dancing and I felt like if I didn't I might miss my one true love asking me to dance. (seriously I was a romantic)

And I went to both my junior and senior prom, my junior prom with a dork from drama class that drank too much Cold Duck and embarassed me in his powder blue tux, circa 1980. And my senior year I went with Matt Ralston my boyfriend that had graduated from another school. It was sweet, he took me out to dinner in his sisters trans am and sent me a dozen roses before hand and I had a wrist corsage and he wore a black tux. And we did it in my room after my parents were asleep after the prom. lol He was nice to me, I didn't know how to deal with that.

I loved going dancing at the teenage disco in Carson City from the time I was 15 years old.

I went to many high school dances, and danced with lots of girls. In clique-speak, I was the-guy-that-everybody-knows; i.e., I didn't belong to any particular group, but was welcome in most of them. Guys knew I wasn't trying to steal their dates just by asking them to dance.

I was class of '82, so the music was late Disco & early New Wave. Pretty good tunes; many of the hit bands from then are now on my iPod.

The funniest thing I've noticed is that if you go into singles clubs today, you see the same crowds that you saw at high school dances--just aged a bit! The same hustlers, the same shy loners, the same boy-hunters, they're all there, hovering by the dance floor waiting for Mr/Miss Special!

my school didnt have dances as it was christian.....

and I never went to a college dance either.

I guess that's why I love to dance so much now.

Maybe he felt comfortable because Peter Garrett is such a shocking dancer!

no only went to one dance, Prom went with one girl and was dating another. I should have been dating the girl I was with but that was not in the cards. Do not know were any of them are today I wonder. Hummm think I will make a phone call .....the prom date was a great gal the girl friend I could care less about now.

UGH! i went to an all girls catholic school. we had combined dances with Serra high school and occasionally the SI and riordan boys would show up. but mostly because i have always been a homely looking girl, i danced with my friends. there was one time that a guy named Kai asked me to dance. i never saw him again. i think he did it on a dare.