At L’Alliance New York, *Save the Last Dance for Me* arrives as a dance work, not the well-known pop standard that first circulated in 1960 and later moved through countless covers. Presented by Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, it revisits Polka Chinata, an Italian folk form traditionally danced as a tightly wound duet. The piece treats revival as a physical problem: how a social dance survives when its context disappears. In New York, that question carries particular weight, given the city’s long habit of importing and reshaping vernacular traditions.