Character

Ballroom Dancers

joyful sociable energetic festive oblivious

Ballroom Dancers fill the inaugural ballroom floor with swing dancing to up-tempo jazz, generating a joyful, celebratory atmosphere. They surround Toby Ziegler amid laughter before he breaks away to confer with Leo McGarry on staffing decisions. This group anchors the festive social energy of White House events, contrasting the nearby political maneuvering over promotions for Will Bailey and Sam Seaborn while Danny Concannon delivers a leaked article to Josh Lyman.

2 appearances

Also known as: Group of ladies, dancers, people on the dance floor, people (on the dance floor)

Ballroom Dancers's Journey

A timeline through the narrative

2 moments

S4E15 · Inauguration Part II: Over There

Appointment, Optics, and the Cost of a Leak

N/A (background participants creating the dance-floor energy).

Ballroom dancers populate the floor and form the social backdrop—obscuring and normalizing the staff's urgent conversations by filling the room with motion.

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S4E15 · Inauguration Part II: Over There

Ballroom Warning: C.J. Warns of Leaks, Leo Defends Doctrine

Festive and detached from the political drama at the bar.

Ballroom dancers continue to dance on the floor nearby, their celebrating obliviousness providing a visual contrast to the bar-side exchange and emphasizing the localized nature of the crisis conversation.

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