smartcookie – This is the basic idea of the Mezinka Dance. And like noted, it originates from the non-frum Jewish “movements”:
The Mezinka dance during a Jewish wedding reception is honoring the parents who have just married off their last child.
It consists of a different type of circle dance where the parents are seated on chairs in the middle of the dance floor. The bride and groom stand by their side and present their parents by crowning them with flower crowns.
The guests create a circle and dance around them. They first start a line and kiss each of the parents saying “Mazel Tov” and the circle formation begins.
There is specific music written for the Mezinka (Mezinke) and it usually starts out slow then the tempo speeds up in a joyful celebration.
It involves inter-gender kissing, inter-gender holding hands, inter-gender dancing, etc. Sure, you can do it completely differently, but then it isn’t a mezinka dance. And why call it something that is inherently anti-Torah and comes from frei folks?
BTW smartcookie, by yours, was the mechitza up and blocking the men from seeing the women dancing?