Dancing is command of the forms current in one’s own culture and station — the figures of a hall, the rounds of a village green, the processional steps of a feast day. What it measures is not whether the character completes the dance but how they looked doing it, which in the right room is a matter of some consequence.
An hour or so of dancing is resolved with a single Dancing Success Value test, and the result colours every attempt at persuasion made over the same hour.
| SV | Performance |
|---|---|
| ≤ 0 | Embarrassing — a −20 penalty to persuasion tests. |
| 1–2 | Stilted — a −10 penalty to persuasion tests. |
| 3–4 | Presentable. No modifier either way. |
| 5+ | Elevated — a +5 bonus to persuasion tests per Value Diamond. |
The same reading serves any performance whose worth is aesthetic rather than practical: Singing and Musician use it unchanged, and Acrobatics, Legerdemain and Theatrics borrow it whenever the point of the exercise is to be watched.