Broken beat. It's there. It swings like a mofo. And it's definitely asymmetrical.
"Dance" is so much deeper than teenagers and discos.
Cecil dances, Ornette dances, Ayler freakin' FLEW, which is perhaps the ultimate dance...Roscoe dances, Braxton dances...
The retro cats, otoh, did/do not dance (for the most part). They statufied. At best, they animatronicized.
The problem is not "dancing" - the problem is people being so fucked up that they can't/won't feel dance, not just in their music, but in the rhythms of their lives. The real dance, the one that is there whether you want it to be there or not.
I don't know where Lucian's parameters are, but in my mind, people who deny (or worse, seek to marginalize and stifle) the dance impulse are the real terrorists, the real weapons of mass destruction. Let's take them out.