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big dance

big dance
 n.— «On Friday, he scheduled his first informal back-and-forth with the press, an informal, off-camera session called the “gaggle” which White House press secretaries typically hold in the mornings as a sort of warmup for The Big Dance—the formal White House daily news briefing.» —“Tony Snow Makes Debut as Press Secretary” in Washington, D.C. New York Times May 12, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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