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If a night dance can be first thought of as a frivolous festive event destined to youth, it actually is a particular space in which to stage oneself, one that offers a productive access to the analysis of gendered behavioral norms and the functioning of the matrimonial market in the first half of the 20th century. By collecting life stories in various Spanish regions, it came as a surprise that all women born in the 1930s recollected this event while remembering their youth. The interview study shows that the night dance is the first space in which men and women get into contact, allowing the future spouses to meet. Given what is at stake, the young women’s attitude is strictly normed and controlled by the unavoidable character of the chaperon.